My Mother and Other Wild Animals

An Essay

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Pub Date Apr 16 2024 | Archive Date Apr 30 2024

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A mother and son embark on the road trip of a lifetime in a charming, poignant essay about making memories, facing fears, and donning fried-egg costumes by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Less.

Andrew Sean Greer can’t wait to get home to San Francisco after a writer’s residency in Kansas. But when his mother, Sandra, decides to come along for the ride, he has a new goal: get her to crack a smile at every stop, whether breathtaking or breathtakingly kitschy.

He’s always known his mother to be as efficient and serious as a chemist (which she happens to be), always in gray, eyebrow cocked, and handling challenges with grace. To mix things up, Andrew develops an elaborate itinerary of planned chaos. Ahead, twenty-six hours of landmarks, pecan divinity, show tunes, and bizarre lodgings for the wild at heart. Best of all, mile by mile, mother and son realize how very much alike they are. And that this is just the escape they both needed.

A mother and son embark on the road trip of a lifetime in a charming, poignant essay about making memories, facing fears, and donning fried-egg costumes by the Pulitzer Prize–winning author of Less.

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A Note From the Publisher

Andrew Sean Greer is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including Less, winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; the national bestselling Less Is Lost; and The Confessions of Max Tivoli, which the San Francisco Chronicle and Chicago Tribune named a best book of 2004. He is the recipient of the Northern California Book Award, the California Book Award, the New York Public Library Young Lions Award, the O. Henry Award for short fiction, and fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts and the New York Public Library.

Andrew Sean Greer is the New York Times bestselling author of seven novels, including Less, winner of the 2018 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction; the national bestselling Less Is Lost; and The Confessions...


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