{"product_id":"my-nest-isnt-empty-it-just-has-more-closet-space-the-amazing-adventures-of-an-ordinary-woman-9780312668341","title":"My Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space: The Amazing Adventures of an Ordinary Woman","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe incomparable Lisa Scottoline, along with daughter Francesca, is back with more wild and wonderful wit and wisdom: \u003ci\u003eMy Nest Isn't Empty, It Just Has More Closet Space\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling author Lisa Scottoline struck a chord with readers, book clubs, and critics with her smash-hit essay collection, \u003ci\u003eWhy My Third Husband Will Be a Dog\u003c\/i\u003e. This time, Lisa teams up with Daughter Francesca to give their mother-daughter perspective on everything from blind dates to empty calories, as well as life with the feistiest octogenarian on the planet, Mother Mary, who won't part with her thirty-year-old bra. Three generations of women, triple the laughs---and the love. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eInspired by their weekly \"Chick Wit\" column for \u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, \u003c\/i\u003e Lisa and Francesca spill all their family secrets---which will sound a lot like yours. And you'll have to put this book down, just to stop laughing. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLISA ON DIETING\u003c\/b\u003e: I'm backsliding with carbohydrates, which is the food version of ex-sex. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFRANCESCA ON CUTTING THE CORD\u003c\/b\u003e: I thought I said, \"I am going to see my cousin's new apartment,\" but in Mom-speak that translates to: \"I am going to meet certain death in the New York City subway tunnels that are soon to be my tomb.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLISA ON MOTHER MARY: \u003c\/b\u003eMost people have a list of Things To Do, but Mother Mary has a list of Things Not To Do. At the top is Don't Go to the Movies. Other entries include Don't Eat Outside With The Bugs and Don't Walk All Over This Cockamamie Mall. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFRANCESCA ON BEING SINGLE: \u003c\/b\u003eI'm addicted to the wedding announcements. Worse, I find myself subtracting my age from the bride's. I thought I was a modern woman, turns out I'm a Cathy cartoon. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eLISA ON AGING GRACEFULLY\u003c\/b\u003e: Today I noticed my first gray hair. On my chin. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eAnd so much more!\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eLisa Scottoline\u003c\/b\u003e is the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e bestselling and Edgar Award-winning author of novels including \u003ci\u003eLook Again, Think Twice, Save Me\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLady Killer\u003c\/i\u003e. She has 25 million copies of her books in print in the United States, and she has been published in twenty-five countries. She is currently serving as the President of the Mystery Writers of America. She lives in Philadelphia with an array of disobedient pets. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrancesca Scottoline Serritella\u003c\/b\u003e graduated cum laude from Harvard University, where she won the Thomas Temple Hoopes Prize, the Baron Russell Briggs Fiction Prize, and the Charles Edmond Horman Prize for her creative writing. She lives in New York. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eTogether, Lisa and Francesca write the weekly column, Chick Wit, for \u003ci\u003eThe Philadelphia Inquirer\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50526962352402,"sku":"9780312668341","price":15.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_1f5d7930-10bc-4b9b-a147-2f539bca5176.jpg?v=1731288024","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/my-nest-isnt-empty-it-just-has-more-closet-space-the-amazing-adventures-of-an-ordinary-woman-9780312668341","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}