![]() In Please Don't Eat the Daisies "Jean Kerr cooks with laughing gas" as she explores the everyday absurdities, anxieties, and joys of marriage, family, friends, home decorating, and maintaining a career-but this time with a garage ( Time). A freelance writer-homemakers whimsical take on suburban family life, based on Jean Kerrs semiautiobiographical bestseller, which first spawned the 1960 film. Now she has her very own washer/dryer, a garden, choice seats at the hottest new third-grade school plays (low overhead but they'll never recoup their losses), and a fresh new kind of lunacy. It sounds like bliss-no more cramped apartments and nightmarish after-theater cocktail parties where the martinis were never dry enough. ![]() In this collection of "wryly observant" essays, Kerr chronicles her new life in this strange land called Larchmont ( The Washington Post). ![]() They moved to a faraway part of the world that promised a grassy utopia where daisies grew wild and homes were described as neo-gingerbread. ![]() One day, Tony Award-winning playwright Jean Kerr packed up her four kids (and husband, Walter, one of Broadway's sharpest critics), and left New York City. laugh-out-loud" #1 New York Times bestseller about life in the suburbs that was adapted into a classic film comedy ( Kirkus Reviews). ![]()
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