She Got Up Off the Couch: And Other Heroic Acts from Mooreland, Indiana
337 pages
|Published: 1 Dec 2005
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ISBN: 9780743285001
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Free Press
Publication date: 13 February 2007
Description
In this sequel to the top-selling A Girl Named Zippy, the woman rising heroically from the couch is Zippy's mother, Delonda. After years of languorous existence, this oversized couch potato emerged from the den to pursue a higher education. Delonda was well read but in other ways seemed ill suited for college: This middle-aged, 260-pound coed had a husband who disapproved of the entire venture, no driver's license, and almost no money. Like its predecessor, She Got Up Off the Couch holds our attention with its sympathetic rendering of idiosyncratic family characters. Hilarious; heartbreaking; ultimately empowering.
