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Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road (Travelers' Tales)by Jennifer L. Leo
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:Button your blouse, here comes a sandstorm of laughs!
Travel isn't always what we dream it will be, but oh, the stories that follow. Share in the hilarious, bizarre, and unforgettable misadventures of 29 women whose trips went comically awry. From Australia to Zambia, up Nepal's mountains and along Mexico's beaches, the true stories in this collection will make you laugh, groan, and sympathize with these travelers who took a trip on the lighter side.
Review:"Travel writer Leo has collected 28 short and snappy travel stories bursting with exuberant candor and crackling humor sure to leave readers feeling that to not have an adventure to remember is a great loss indeed." Publishers Weekly Synopsis:Writing from the road, 25 comediennes contribute hilarious, bizarre, and unforgettable stories of their trips that went off track. Includes accounts by Anne Lamott, Ellen DeGeneres, Sarah Vowell, and Cynthia Kaplan. Illustrations. Synopsis:Travel doesn't always live up to one's expectations — it sometimes exceeds them. For the 25 women contributors to Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures, hitting the road inspires tales that their friends and families, as well as the readers of this book, will never forget. Readers laugh, cry, and commiserate with these women and their comical, bizarre, and unforgettable adventures including being chased by a herd of 50 African elephants, getting bitten by a goddess-possessed healer in Kathmandu, nightclubbing with a prude in Bangkok's infamous Patpong sex district, and observing the shenanigans of a delirious new son-in-law in the Himalayas. Contributors include Anne Lamott, Ellen Degeneres, Sandra Tsing Loh, Sarah Vowell, and Cynthia Kaplan. About the AuthorJennifer L. Leo is a Chinese-American born with a gift for gab and a hunger for an everlasting craps game. She is co-editor of A Woman's Path, and her writing has also appeared in Wild Writing Women: Stories of World Travel, A Woman's Passion for Travel, The Adventure of Food, Lonely Planet World Food Guides Hong Kong, BootsnAll.com, and other books in the Travelers' Tales series. When not working on a career in print and online travel publishing, Jen fantasizes about her dream job of being a jewelry thief and stay-at-home mom. For practice she lifts brown mustard from burger joints and borrows children from her friends. Her nomadic bloodline can be traced back five generations to Canton, China. Table of ContentsIntroduction Mom's Travel Advisories 1 Mexican Mating Calls 4 Internal Affairs 8 The Aunties 15 All-Natural Herbal Girl 23 The Plane Truth 28 Sand in My Bra 35 Sometimes a Great Myth 46 Great in the Sack 61 The Perils of Leisure 66 Panic, In Any Other Language 71 A Prude in Patpong 79 Panties or Prison 88 Take the Cannoli 91 Fifteen Minutes Can Last Forever 101 Love and War at the Pier Hotel 108 Cultural Exposure 115 Pissed Off in Nepal 122 At a Loss for Words 126 A Family Connection 131 Learning to Think Outside a Parisian Box 134 Chador Etiquette 140 What to Wear 147 The Summer of the Lost Ham 151 Scared Shitless on Safari 158 No Crater Love 161 Hat Head 165 Women Who Run with No Clothes On 173 Index of Contributors 189 Acknowledgments 190 What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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