The Thong Also Rises
Further Misadventures from Funny Women on the Road
Travel girls gone wild! It's not about their underwear, it's about gut-busting adventures. These funny women on the road just can't stop laughing about the global messes they get themselves into. In The Thong Also Rises, Jen Leo brings you dozens of crazy Ms.-Adventures from Egypt to North Dakota and back home again. On a coffee break, right before bed, waiting for the bus, or hiding in the bathroom—howl, cry, guffaw, and commiserate with these adventuresses.
- Go to the bathroom with a pig in your face with Megan Lyles in India
- Congratulate the naked bride and groom on Valentine's Day in Jamaica with Elizabeth Asdorian
- Pity Anastasia Ashman as she competes with a GPS device for her husband's attention on a New York road trip
- Lie to airport security like Deanna Sukkar when they find a sex toy in your luggage with your mother right behind you
- Sit in on Jennifer Cox's hot night with a yogi in Australia while she goes around the world in 80 dates
- Be a diarrhea vaccine guinea pig with Colleen Friesen in Guatemala
- Board a crusty old Soviet bomber in Laos with Tamara Sheward while her girlfriend gobbles expired valium
More notable authors include: Jill Conner Browne, Laurie Notaro, Susan Orlean, Ayun Halliday, and more...
Showcasing every known type of travel blunder, botch, stumble, and bumble, these rollicking stories come from all corners of the globe and are told from a quintessentially female point of view.
NATIONAL BOOK TOUR INFO:
Editor Jennifer Leo will be on tour for five weeks in Fall 2005 and will visit cities including Los Angeles, San Diego, San Francisco, Seattle, Eugene, Portland, Vancouver, BC, Chicago, Milwaukee, Madison, Memphis, and parts of the East Coast TBA. Jen will be joined by contributors to The Thong Also Rises in some cities. See Events for more details.
AUTHOR BIO:
Jennifer L. Leo was born with a gift for gab and a hunger for an everlasting craps game. She is editor of the best selling Sand in My Bra and Other Misadventures: Funny Women Write from the Road, and its popular sequel, Whose Panties Are These? Jen's writing has also appeared in Hyenas Laughed at Me and Now I Know Why, A Woman's Passion for Travel, Lonely Planet The Best of Las Vegas, BootsnAll.com, and TIME, among others. She is the author of WrittenRoad.com, an online resource for travel writers. Jen lives in Las Vegas and writes for VivaLasVegasBlog.com while chasing adventures in the poker world.
PUBLICITY INFO:
Please contact Travelers' Tales for event requests, review copies, media questions and additional book information.
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BOOK SPECS:
The Thong Also Rises: Further Misadventures from Funny Women on the Road
Edited by Jennifer L. Leo
$14.95, 232 pp,
Trade paperback 51/8 x 8
ISBN: 1932361243