Appearing on stage with a stool, a microphone, and a can of Diet Pepsi, Paula Poundstone’s ability to create humor on the spot is legendary. Much of her material is based on her life as a single mother with a full house: three children, nine cats, a cat-eating dog, a bearded dragon lizard, an elderly bunny, and one determined ant left over from an ant farm.Her autobiography is a hilarious tour through Poundstone’s absurdist brand of life’s truth and consequences. She tackles everything from the silly to the heart-wrenching—family, history, religious revelations, dishwashing, alcoholism, and her experience with America’s legal system, which nearly brought her career to an abrupt end.
Part memoir, part monologue, told with a pinch of self-deprecation and a dash of startling honesty, There’s Nothing in This Book That I Meant to Say is wryly observant, ironic, funny, touching, and smart, like Poundstone herself.