Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon to be on Fire
Author: Monroy, Liza
ISBN: 9781593766498
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 11 Oct 2016
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Liza Monroy's new book is collection of deeply personal essays that tackle the universal themes of romantic and familial love, fate and chance, all told in a humorous and intelligent manner that keeps the reader yearning for more. Created in the wake of Liza's popular essays including her piece for the i>Modern Love/i> column in the i>New York Times/i> i>Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire/i> chronicles Liza's many misadventures in her quest for love. These misadventures span a variety of countries and a variety of men, all bound together under the watchful eye of her eccentric, single mother, a profiler for the U.S. State Department, who is soon using her professional aptitude to weed out the men in her daughter's path.br>br>Filled with quirky details and archetypal characters from our everyday lives, with stories that are both wildly hilarious and deeply heartfelt, i>Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire/i> is both a vulnerably open testament to Liza's personal experiences and an intriguing work that confronts the odds of finding love and intimacy in the increasingly depersonalized world of technology.
ISBN: 9781593766498
Publisher: RANDOM HOUSE US
Year first published: 11 Oct 2016
Pages: 256
Format: Paperback / softback
Liza Monroy's new book is collection of deeply personal essays that tackle the universal themes of romantic and familial love, fate and chance, all told in a humorous and intelligent manner that keeps the reader yearning for more. Created in the wake of Liza's popular essays including her piece for the i>Modern Love/i> column in the i>New York Times/i> i>Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire/i> chronicles Liza's many misadventures in her quest for love. These misadventures span a variety of countries and a variety of men, all bound together under the watchful eye of her eccentric, single mother, a profiler for the U.S. State Department, who is soon using her professional aptitude to weed out the men in her daughter's path.br>br>Filled with quirky details and archetypal characters from our everyday lives, with stories that are both wildly hilarious and deeply heartfelt, i>Seeing As Your Shoes Are Soon To Be On Fire/i> is both a vulnerably open testament to Liza's personal experiences and an intriguing work that confronts the odds of finding love and intimacy in the increasingly depersonalized world of technology.
