Encyclopedia Of An Ordinary Life

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A snappy, random, remarkable memoir - the first of its kind to give readers an honest flaws-n-all perspective of what it's like to be...ordinary. Initially inspired by the bizarre, haphazard arrangement' of The Pillow Book of Sei Shonagon, Rosenthal has collected a lifetime of thoughts, observations and decisions, and created an alphabetised personal encyclopaedia, complete with cross-referenced entries and illustrations. Whether you are laughing aloud or nodding along, reading Encyclopaedia of an Ordinary Life is like being introduced to a new friend.'

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Entries are consistently amusing, revelatory, poetic, or strike that Thats exactly how I see/experience it! synapse in the brainA+. The Plain Dealer (Cleveland)

[Rosenthal] shines her generous light of humanity on the seemingly humdrum moments of life and shows how delightfully precious they actually area marvelous memoir. The Chicago Sun-Times

Encyclopedia has miles of pillow book charmRosenthals humor is generous and endearingly scattershot. The Village Voice

Reading it, you get the feeling that not only would you like Amy to be your best friend because shes so thoughtful and endearing but because the most ordinary of moments do not escape her own unique sense of profundity. The Detroit News

The perfect postmodern memoir, collecting the bits and pieces of a so-called average life and filing them into a clever narrative that reveals ordinary is anything but. Sun-Sentinel (South Florida)

Author Bio

Amy Krouse Rosenthal lives in Chicago. This is her first book.