Description
Jump in the family Winnebago and join Stacey Roberts on a hilarious and touching trip through a trailer-trash childhood. This hilarious book, Trailer Trash, With a Girl's Name, is based on author Stacey Roberts's life. It's a gut-busting, side-splitting story that begins with Roberts's premature birth and then shares his family's experiences living in a Winnebago. This memoir is sure to make even the most cantankerous reader giggle, chuckle, or laugh out loud. Roberts has created an unforgettable cast of characters that borders on caricatures. Most have a descriptor with their names, which can change. Ted the Lightbulb Salesman becomes Ted the Idle when he quits his job, and then later morphs into Ted the Drug Dealer. Roberts also has a flair for humorous writing. He speaks of changing his name: "I needed the manliest of man names to go with my deepening voice and sudden werewolf-like hairiness." Some quirks need no exaggeration, such as his mom's tendency to mess up names and draw out her s, as in "SSSStace." Other things he alters or exaggerates for a laugh, such as his insults toward his mother's cooking: "My mother's kasha and bowties tasted like the wretched tears of a first-day prison inmate after lights out." Touching, disturbing at times, and all around fun, Trailer Trash, with a Girl's Name is an enjoyable ride. Beth VanHouten Foreword Clarion Reviews Stacey Roberts is proof positive that one man's trash can be another man's treasure. The writer grew up in a dysfunctional family and faced an uphill climb from birth to manhood. He was saddled with a girl's first name and cast in the shadow of his older brother-and his mother, who can't cook, frequently remarried, and had the family traipsing across the country in a Winnebago. But Stacey turned his upbringing around and eventually went to college and married. He received a BA from the University of Miami and an MA from the University of Cincinnati, and he is father to two brilliant and inspiring daughters. In his debut book, Trailer Trash, With a Girl's Name , he has managed to look back at his rocky childhood from a lighthearted yet appreciative standpoint, enabling him to tell a tale that's not only hilarious but also very real and amazingly hopeful.
Features & Highlights
- When the author was born, his mother did the unthinkable. She gave him a girl’s name—Stacey.
- But Stacey’s name was just the first hurdle he’d face in his uphill climb from birth to manhood. He also had to deal with an entitled older brother, the hodgepodge of different men his mother was involved with, and the nomadic lifestyle he was forced to endure for five years. And to top it all off, his mother couldn’t cook a decent meal to save her life.
- Trailer Trash, With a Girl’s Name
- is Stacey Roberts’ lighthearted, often hilarious account of growing up in an unstable household during the 1980s. Full of humor, history, and hope, it follows Stacey from the hospital room where he was born to the Winnebago that carried him across the country, filling in the gaps with a wit and humor that anyone with a dysfunctional family can appreciate.
- So go ahead and start reading. Once you hop aboard the Winnebago with Stacey and his quirky family, you’ll find that you’re in for the ride or your life, where what you learn along the way is not only entertaining, but also enormously enriching.
