Book ~ "I'm Sorry You Feel That Way" (2009) Diana Joseph

From Amazon ~ Meet the men in Diana Joseph’s life: “The boy,” Diana’s fourteen-year-old son, who supports the NRA and dreams of living in a house with wall-to-wall carpeting; Diana’s father, who’s called her on the telephone twice, ever, and who sat her down when she was twelve to caution her against becoming a slut (she didn’t listen); Diana’s brothers, or as her father calls them, “the two assholes”; Diana’s ex-husband, a lumberjack with three ex-wives, yet he’s still the first one she calls when she’s in a jam; and Diana’s common-law husband, Al, an English professor who’s been mistakenly called mentally challenged. Ostensibly organized around the various men in Diana’s life, this is really a memoir about what it’s like to be a modern, smart woman making her way in the world.

I like reading books like this ... funny memoirs written about common life experiences.

I enjoyed the writing and found it fast paced. Definitely a fun read!

The author teaches creative writing at a university. Some of the stories are quite raunchy and graphic ... I wonder what her students think of her and how it affects her professional credibility. But I imagine she's like this in "real life" and her students are used to it so there's no impact.