Why Animals Sleep So Close to the Road: And Other Lies I Tell My Children

by Susan Konig

Book Overview

Susan Konig's warm, witty, and all-true story of becoming a work-from-home suburban mother--think Erma Bombeck meets I Don't Know How She Does It --is winning and laugh-out-loud funny. Lifelong city dwellers, the Konig family can barely turn around in an apartment that seems to shrink with each addition. With baby #3 on the way, their home is nearing the bursting point. But it's the smallest inhabitants, a bold group of mice who don't mind living...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 031233236X
• ISBN13: 9780312332365
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
• Length: 206 Pages
• Weight: 0.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.8" x 8.7"

Customer Reviews

Funny, entertaining and insightful

This is really a treat as Ms. Konig let's us into the inner workings of her family - and her own head. "Why Animals..." makes a great gift - I've given at least twenty of them and everyone has appreciated the read. I hope there's a sequel!

Funny! A mom in need of a laugh? Get this book!

Are you a mom with young kids? Maybe you have a toddler and are pregnant again? You will be nodding your head, saying, uh-huh, laughing, totally identifying with this mom. Probably saying, "Hey, I could have written this!" I'm enjoying this book and as a mom to two young ones, a 3 yr old, and an 11 month old, I recommend it. (I read it in the bathroom or while nursing!)

Wonderfully Funny and Honest!

Maybe we have our new Erma Bombeck in Susan Konig who supplies some wonderfully humorous and amazingly honest looks at motherhood in her new book, which is a compliation of realted essays. It's been over 20 years since I had todlers but Konig brought it all back to me - the fun, the funny, the insanity! This book will be enjoyed by mothers of all ages and circumstances.