The core of this new collection of witty essays (Laurie's first in four years) focuses on Laurie and her numerous attempts to fit into her current community of Eugene, Oregon. After five years there, the newness and novelty have worn off, and now Laurie is forced to see that she's a taxpayer in a town where she doesn't necessarily fit in, or, for that matter, belong. She and her husband are invited to the neighborhood Holiday Extravaganza at a neighbor's house, and become immediately blackballed, forced to watch the festivities every year afterward from across the street; she is somehow banned from the local post office; trees are stolen from her front yard with the precision of aliens that mutilate cattle; and everywhere she turns, there's another boob with a suckling infant attached (although in this town, the suckling infant is optional) in this ultra-liberal, polyamorous (yes, that means swingers), "follow-your bliss" type of city. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Everyone's favorite Idiot Girl, Laurie Notaro, is just trying to find the right fit, whether it's in the adorable blouse that looks charming on the mannequin but leaves her in a literal bind or in her neighborhood after she's shamefully exposed at a holiday party by delivering a low-quality rendition of "Jingle Bells." Notaro makes misstep after riotous misstep as she shares tales of marriage and family, including stories about the dog-bark translator that deciphers Notaro's and her husband's own "woofs" a little too accurately, the emails from her mother with "FWD" in the subject line ("which in email code means Forecasting World Destruction"), and the dead-of-night shopping sprees and Devil Dog-devouring monkeyshines of a creature known as "Ambien Laurie." At every turn, Notaro's pluck and irresistible candor set the New York Times bestselling author on a journey that's laugh-out-loud funny and utterly unforgettable.