Summary
‘Should I diaper my kids or my parents first?’
…is but one dilemma dissected by C. R.Yeager in this humorous essay collection.
Smart, stylish, and punchy, this book is a suburban midlife hybrid of Erma Bombeck and P. J. O’Rourke. It features 51 side-splitting speculations on subjects ranging from parental miscues and mortality malaise to the marital repercussions of a hamburger on the ceiling and the arcane art of living on a slab (‘less a bowl of cherries than trying to fit a watermelon in a mason jar’). With zany cartoons by award-winning illustrator Thom Zahler, it’s the perfect palate-cleanser for baby boomers who haven’t yet busted.
About the Author
Cleveland, Ohio native C. R. Yeager has survived the Cuyahoga River fire, Mayor Perk’s equally flambic hair, and numerous pro sport mistakes by Lake Erie. His taste for word play and witty observation developed while majoring in English with honors at John Carroll University. Half-British by birth, he tries not to overcommemorate his great-grandparents’ publicanism on visits to Shakespeare’s hometown, Stratford-Upon-Avon. He and his wife Marsha adopted their daughter Anna from Nanchang, China, where she would like to return one day--- by way of Hawaii.
Reviews
'...accurate and entertaining... An absolute must for anyone interested in
the perils of suburban life.'
-Jessica Roberts, BookPleasures.com
“Breakfast At Noon: Backwards In The ‘Burbs by C. R. Yeager is an easy-to-follow and quite humorous take on the conundrum of living the suburban life in an age of the ‘Sandwich Generation’. Focusing upon the compromises invoked by raising children while also taking care of aging parents, Breakfast At Noon offers fifty-one tactfully authored essays ranging in subject from Handbag Hell; Heavy Petting; and Once Smitten, Twice Shy; to Cease and De-list. Breakfast At Noon is very highly recommended reading, particularly for members of the Sandwich Generation for its hilarious satirical but all-too-true interpretation of life and responsibility for baby boomer age grown-ups as well as offering a thoroughly thought-out and well written social analysis.”
- from Wisconsin Bookwatch, “The Midwest Book Review”, May 2006
“Yeager’s essays are a quirky joyride through the intersection
of middle age, suburbia and parenthood.”
- Jim Sollisch, NPR essayist
“Yeager’s engaging comic pieces exude native intelligence and
hard-won wisdom.”
- Eric Broder, The Great Indoors
