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Everybody into the Pool

By Beth Lisick
Everybody into the Pool by Beth Lisick digital book - Fable

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Beth Lisick started out as a homecoming princess with a Crisco-aided tan and a bad perm. And then everything changed. Plunging headlong into America's deepest subcultures, while keeping both feet firmly planted in her parents' Leave It to Beaver values, Lisick makes her adult home on the fringe of mainstream culture and finds it rich with paradox and humor. On the one hand, she lives in "Brokeley" with drug dealers and street gangs; on the other, she drives a station wagon with a baby seat in the back, makes her own chicken stock, and attends ladies' luncheons. How exactly did this suburban girl-next-door end up as one of San Francisco's foremost chroniclers of alternative culture? Lisick explains it all in her hilarious, irreverent, bestselling memoir, Everybody into the Pool.

Fans of David Sedaris and Sarah Vowell will relish Lisick's scathingly funny, smart, very real take on the effluvia of daily living. No matter what community she's exposing to the light, Lisick always hits the right chord.

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Tamara N.

Created over 5 years ago
“The first few stories of her childhood are funny, but as the author grows older, the stories become stranger, darker and sadder.”
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lauraf

Created almost 7 years ago
“I bought this book while visiting a good friend of mine in San Francisco a few years ago. It was a magical trip, and I brought back a few books and music, and a ton of memories, with me. I'd been waiting for a special time to read this one for some reason, and then realized that all times are special - and cracking this open would also remind me of so many good memories. A win-win, really. Short stories used to be one of my favorite go-to's. Somewhere along the line, though, I stopped indulging in them. They used to be my bedside table standby, as well as bathroom reading material. Enter the lull and addiction of social media and cell phones, which I wind up indulging in instead of the short story. In an attempt to both read more and get off my phone more, I am renewing my interest (and indulgence) in the short story. Everybody Into the Pool was my first dive into short story land (pun intended). I chose it for the memories it would bring with it, because of my love of San Francisco, and because I've been trying to write my own memoir - both in book form, and in short essay form - for quite a few years, and was hoping this would inspire and ignite my writer's motivation (it did). I loved some stories more than others, which is always the case with story collections. The stories of Beth in her youth - especially as a teenager, and later as a young adult navigating sexuality, bad neighborhoods, and odd jobs - were my favorite. I also had a lot of affection for the last story of her and her son, and the unattractive realities of new motherhood/parenthood that is rarely seen, or shown, in Media and Art. As I read each story I kept imagining hearing them read aloud in a spoken word, one-woman show type environment - something like the Moth, or a show with Beth telling all these stories herself. Her voice was often so clear on the page that I felt like I could "hear" it. I'm glad I chose this one to start with - its a must-read for anyone who a) grew up/or became "grown-ups" in the '90s, b) has a love of San Francisco, c) enjoys the complex stories of women and people as they hit all the many "coming-of-age" moments in a life.”

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