If you were here

Title:

If you were here

Author:

Lancaster, Jen, 1967- author.

Summary:

Amish-zombie-teen-romance author Mia and her husband Mac purchase and renovate their first home in the Chicago suburbs, and they struggle with the work on the house, fights with the homeowners' association, rude neighbors, and adapting to their new environment.

Audience:

Adult Follett Library Resources

Physical Description:

306 p. ; 24 cm.

Subject Term:

Suburbs -- Illinois -- Chicago -- Fiction.

Dwellings -- Remodelling -- Fiction.

Women authors -- Fiction.

Marriage -- Fiction.

Geographic Term:

Chicago (Ill.) -- Fiction.

Publisher:

New American Library,

Publication Date:

2011

ISBN:

9780451234384

Publication Information:

New York : New American Library, c2011.

Call Number:

LANCAST

Holds: Copies:

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Summary

Watch a video The fiction debut of the New York Times bestselling author of My Fair Lazy .

Told in the uproariously entertaining voice readers have come to expect from Jen Lancaster, If You Were Here follows Amish-zombie-teen- romance author Mia and her husband Mac (and their pets) through the alternately frustrating, exciting, terrifying-but always funny-process of buying and renovating their first home in the Chicago suburbs that John hughes's movies made famous. Along their harrowing renovation journey, Mia and Mac get caught up in various wars with the homeowners' association, meet some less-than-friendly neighbors, and are joined by a hilarious cast of supporting characters, including a celebutard ex- landlady. As they struggle to adapt to their new surroundings- with Mac taking on the renovations himself- Mia and Mac will discover if their marriage is strong enough to survive months of DIY renovations.

Author Notes

Jen Lancaster was born in November 1967. After graduating with a B. A. in political science, she worked for an HMO and then at a technology company. In December 2002, after being unemployed for over a year, she launched a website to air her frustrations about unemployment and it gained popularity quickly. Her first book, Bitter Is the New Black, was published in 2005. Her other works include Bright Lights, Big Ass; Such a Pretty Fat; Pretty in Plaid; My Fair Lazy; Jeneration X; If You Were Here, and the Tao of Martha.

(Bowker Author Biography)

Reviews (1)

Publisher's Weekly Review

House-proud? For Mia and Mac, it's more like house-crazed after they're forced into a hunt for a better, safer, and more perfect home by a crazed landlady and a firebombing graffiti moron. So begins the laugh-out-loud travails of this smart if hapless Chicago couple-she a writer of John Hughes-inspired teenage angst set among the Amish, and he, an impossibly forgiving partner. Lancaster keeps the action fast and funny with a big, rollicking cast-Mia's grandma Babcia, who runs a Polish cleaning lady syndicate; best friends Tracey and Kara, who share Mia's adoration of all things John Hughes; neighbors from hell; and, of course, Hughes himself, who, when not cited, is spoken to by Mia as she struggles through home renovation, career maintenance, and regular ol' relationship stuff. It helps to know the oeuvre of the prolific Breakfast Club genius, but it's innocence that Lancaster is mostly concerned about in this rambunctiously related (it's footnoted) yarn about finding a home and making it your own. (May) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved.