Housebroken: Admissions of an Untidy Life

Notaro recounts her best efforts and failures in the domestic arts like cooking and cleaning.

Laurie Notaro has been fired from seven jobs, laid off from three, and voluntarily liberated from one. Despite all that, she has managed to write a number of New York Times bestselling essay collections. She lives with her husband in Oregon, where-according to her mother, who refuses to visit-she sleeps in a trailer in the woods.