The Harm in Asking: My Clumsy Encounters with the Human Race

The Harm in Asking: My Clumsy Encounters with the Human Race

by Sara Barron
The Harm in Asking: My Clumsy Encounters with the Human Race

The Harm in Asking: My Clumsy Encounters with the Human Race

by Sara Barron

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Overview

Welcome to the perverse and hilarious mind of Sara Barron. In The Harm in Asking, she boldly addresses the bizarre indignities of everyday life: from invisible pets to mobster roommates, from a hatred of mayonnaise to an unrequited love of k.d. lang, from the ruinous side effect of broccoli to the sheer delight of a male catalogue model. In a voice that is incisive and entirely her own, Barron proves herself the master of the awkward, and she achieves something wonderful and rare: a book that makes you laugh out loud. Simply put: if you read it, you will never be the same.*

*That's not true. You'll probably stay the same. But you'll have laughed a lot. And you'll have learned a fun fact about Jessica Simpson's home spray. See? You didn't even know she had a home spray! The learning has already begun. 


Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780307720702
Publisher: Crown Publishing Group
Publication date: 03/25/2014
Pages: 320
Product dimensions: 5.10(w) x 7.90(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

SARA BARRON’S work has appeared in Vanity Fair; on Showtime's This American Life, NPR's Weekend Edition, and Today; and at HBO's Comedy Festival. She is a frequent host of The Moth: True Stories Told Live events. 

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Table of Contents

Part I Homebody

1 Scrub Toilet Super-Super (A Tale in Twelve Parts) 3

2 Bonjour, Delphine 27

3 The Stupids Step Out 48

4 Seven Ages of a Magical Lesbian 62

Part II Renegade

5 Alcoholics Accountable 89

6 The Boogie Rhythm 98

7 The Super Silver Haze 105

8 Appetite for Destruction 116

9 Forever Yours, Flipper 129

10 How Long Till My Soul Gets It Right? 140

Part III Roommate

11 Mole Woman 159

12 Can't You Help a Person Who Is Sick to Wash Her Back? 177

13 Not All Italians 190

14 Eleanor Barron 212

15 Talk to Her 219

16 In Defense of Band-Aid Brand Adhesive 226

Part IV Survivor

17 Vicki's Vagina Is Violet 235

18 This Might Be Controversial 260

19 Daddy's Girl Should Wear a Diaper (A Tale in Twenty-Five Parts) 271

Acknowledgments 307

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