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Twice flunked out of college, Adam Matcho -- newly married and newly a father -- finds himself in school again, rushing to classes between shifts at a novelty store. In here, the weird have turned capitalist. Customers need goods. Adam needs work. He needs a degree to get a better job, but the hours are endless and the pay not enough. Only Adam Matcho could make us laugh at a world that wants us to be zombies in a George Romero film. Deeper than the news but just as current, THE NOVELTY ESSAYS reveal how we work, what those hours do, and how a story can save us all. "Adam Matcho has more talent than most corporations have profits, and his vision of America is tragic and brilliant and hilarious." -- Dave Newman, author of TWO SMALL BIRDS and more

Her 70-year-old, cancer-stricken mother kills snakes with a broom. Her best friend believes in psychics and the Virgin Mary. Her new neighbor steals her CDs and her aunt sneaks cheese curls into the house. After seven years in New York, Lori Jakiela gives up her job as an international flight attendant and her dreams of becoming a writer, and returns home to Pittsburgh to take care of her dying mother. A loving but befuddled daughter, Jakiela stumbles to find her new life while sleeping in her childhood bed and teaching writing to students who hate to read. Unexpected love, expected loss, the struggle to find our own families, THE BRIDGE TO TAKE WHEN THINGS GET SERIOUS is the story of mothers and daughters, the debts we pay, and the new lives we build for ourselves when we least expect them.