by Peggy Rowe
First published 2022
Peggy Rowe spent decades collecting rejection letters from publishers. She wrote through the disappointment anyway. Her family cheered her on. At eighty, she finally broke through. Now she shares the funny stories that kept her going. She writes about Shim, the family dog who loved rolling in fresh horse manure. She describes beach vacations plagued by mosquitos as big as vehicles. She tackles the absurdities of getting older. Even in her cancer support group, she finds ways to make people smile. Between games of Mahjongg and phone calls with her publisher, she sits at her kitchen table. She watches the world outside her window and takes notes for her next story. Rowe has turned a lifetime of everyday moments into comedy gold.
Genres: humor, autobiography, memoir, comedy, 21st-century
Vibes: emotional, intimate, whimsical
Tropes: found-family, slice-of-life
240 pages · Hardcover · Forefront Books