Providing solace, advice and commiseration for anyone trying to make sense of a family tree gone haywire with divorce and remarriage, this hilarious latest effort by novelist and journalist Karbo (Motherhood Made a Man Out of Me) is like a fresh...
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Karen Karbo, Author . Bloomsbury $24.95 (256p) ISBN 978-1-58234-183-5
Karbo achieves the near-impossible with this memoir: she wrangles the potentially depressing subjects of death and a dysfunctional family into a funny, uplifting page-turner. When her kindhearted but curmudgeonly father is diagnosed with lung cancer,
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Karen Karbo, Author . Bloomsbury $19.95 (193p) ISBN 978-1-59691-351-6
Katharine Hepburn, who would have turned 100 in May this year, was known for doing things her own way. Her choices were famously unconventional—rejecting family life in favor of her career, living as Spencer Tracy's mistress for decades,...
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Karen Karbo, Author Overlook Press $13.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-87951-486-0
Reluctantly back home in L.A. after 16 years in Africa, a documentary filmmaker longs for the jungle; with its laugh-aloud moments and brilliantly drawn cast, this is a tale to treasure. (July)
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Karen Karbo, Author Bloomsbury Publishing PLC $23.95 (288p) ISBN 978-1-58234-083-8
Karbo (The Diamond Lane) is at her best writing tongue-in-cheek riffs on sports and modern life and manages a successful marriage of the two in her sassy, satirical new novel. Living in the Pacific Northwest with her computer game-obsessed husband,...
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Karen Karbo, Author Putnam Publishing Group $21.95 (316p) ISBN 978-0-399-13597-2
Reluctantly back home in L.A. after 16 years in Africa, documentary filmmaker Mouse FitzHenry longs for the harsh, teeming jungle life her dark lens took in so lovingly. Wrenched stateside by a family emergency, with her longtime boyfriend/collaborat
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Karen Karbo, Author Putnam Publishing Group $19.95 (190p) ISBN 978-0-399-13437-1
In this wryly amusing collection of interrelated first-person vignettes, the disarming self-revelations of a group of Russian emigres newly transplanted to Southern California are both witty and poignant. Karbo's cast of alternating narrators, all...
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Karen Karbo. Skirt!, $24.95 (240p) ISBN -978-0-7627-8309-0
The love affair with the iconic Julia Child continues in Karbo’s guide to living with abandon, as Child always did, which gives a window into the legendary cook, author, and television host’s fascinating backstory. One of the lessons Karbo draws...
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Karen Karbo. Harper Wave, $26.99 (240p) ISBN 978-0-06-294554-9
In this funny, well-researched work, Karbo (In Praise of Difficult Women) explains how she ditched “self-improvery” and learned to live as her “true self.” While railing against “the great female self-improvement bamboozlement,” Karbo weaves in her...
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