Breakfast at Noon: Backwards in the "Burbs"

‘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.