Please Don't Eat the Daisies

Please Don't Eat the Daisies

<B>The “refreshing . . . laugh-out-loud” #1 <I>New York Times</I> bestseller about life in the suburbs that was adapted into a classic film comedy (<I>Kirkus Reviews</I>).</B><BR />  <BR /> One day, Tony Award–winning playwright Jean Kerr packed up her four kids (and husband, Walter, one of Broadway’s sharpest critics), and left New York City. They moved to a faraway part of the world that promised a grassy utopia where daisies grew wild and homes were described as neo-gingerbread. In this collection of “wryly observant” essays, Kerr chronicles her new life in this strange land called Larchmont (<I>The</I><I>Washington Post</I>).<BR />  <BR /> It sounds like bliss—no more cramped apartments and nightmarish after-theater cocktail parties where the martinis were never dry enough. Now she has her very own washer/dryer, a garden, choice seats at the hottest new third-grade school plays (low overhead but they’ll never recoup their losses), and a fresh new kind of lunacy.<BR />  <BR /> In <I>Please Don’t Eat the Daisies</I> “Jean Kerr cooks with laughing gas” as she explores the everyday absurdities, anxieties, and joys of marriage, family, friends, home decorating, and maintaining a career—but this time with a garage! (<I>Time</I>).