Mother on Fire : A True Motherf%#$@ Story about Parenting! (Paperback)

from Hyun

Hilarious personal account of Loh's attempts to get her child into a private school in CA. Excellent writer, but her overuse of parentheses and CAPS take getting used to.

from kristenn

This is the third Loh collection I've read, and I subscribe to the Atlantic Monthly, so I already knew I loved her writing and sense of humor. There was much less repetition than I expected -- there would periodically be a paragraph that I recognized from a magazine article, but then it would go ...

from Auntie-Nanuuq

This is supposed to be funny? A hormonally unbalanced ranting woman...spewing stream of consciousness?Chapter one begins with Laura teaching an English class at Mount St. Mary's College...and going off on some tangent about Count Vronsky & Anna Karenina dancing the "MAZURKA" then switching to Mr....

from emigre

Hilarious book. Reading this provided a lot of stress relief, even if one has never tried to look for a "good" kindergarten in LA that didn't cost an arm and a leg, Tsing Loh's manic prose will make you laugh out loud.