Okay. This is my website. I know a lot of people are puzzled so I might as well confess that the title of this book is actually “It’s My Fucking Birthday.”
It’s the first novel I wrote. And it takes place over a period of seven birthdays. The main character, a highschool art teacher, is trying to track her life’s progress. One of the things I dealt with at length in this book is the tricky business of having narcissistic parents. Oddly enough I had this area pretty well researched. I was lucky enough to have some narcissistic parents of my very own. And because you were nice enough to show up here, at this website, I have a little bonus to offer. Here is the URL of a blog I started keeping a few years ago, while doing research. It is comprised entirely of the actual content of my actual mother's travel diaries. Her name is changed. And the photo on the blog is not of my mother, but of my friend Maria. Still, the withering, judgmental and almost entirely negative travelogue is by my actual mother. Although I think she would argue that the afore mentioned description is not in fact the tone she was taking. I recommend you go back to the early entries and read forward to get the full effect. Suffice it to say that my mother called Notre Dame Cathedral “a monstrosity” and St. Peter’s Square in Venice, Italy “over decorated.” http://ducafe.blogster.com/
Reviews for It's My Fucking Birthday.
Bickering parents, weird sex and ambiguous floral arrangements pave the road to enlightenment in legendary comedy writer Merrill Markoe's first novel...Along the way she reminds readers that the heart is a fragile little critter. And sometimes the best we can do is make a wish and blow those candles out.
—O Magazine
Laugh out loud debut fiction, Classy stuff that deserves tons of flowers from dazed and satisfied readers.
—Kirkus Reviews
The perfect gift for all women who face birthdays with grim determination, pepper spray and sharp fingernail files. Markoe teaches the joy of laughing through pain and bubbling through toil and trouble.
—Publisher’s Weekly
Markoe brings her crisp gratifyingly feminish sense of humor and flair for satirizing the lives of frustrated singles to an irresistible first novel.
—Booklist