The Humorous Story of a One-Woman Train Wreck—Winner of Black Lawrence Press’s Big Moose Prize
Meet Zelda Mc Figg. She is 4-feet 11-inches tall, 237 pounds, and convinced that she could be somebody, if only someone would recognize her inner beauty and star quality. Cousin to Ignatius J. Reilly (A Confederacy of Dunces) and Homer Simpson, Zelda runs away from home at age 14, and at age 49 ¼ writes this furiously funny memoir to ‘set the record straight’ about her lifetime of indiscretions.
Behind Zelda’s rollicking tale of destruction lies a story of exile. Exile from oneself. Readers will see much more about Zelda than she knows about herself. Says author Susan Trott (The Holy Man series and many other books), ‘Ingenious comic author Betsy Robinson, in finely wrought prose, tells the life story of Zelda Mc Figg. Zelda is a heavyweight, seemingly guided or misguided by a ruinous wrath and the feeling that dishonesty is the best policy. Robinson designs a remarkable pilgrimage for Zelda and uncovers under her many, many layers, a sorrowful affectionate heart.’
The Something Wordy Blog calls the book ‘Mark Twain-esque [with an] undercurrent flowing through it: direct, call-a-spade-a-spade honesty, that had me laughing, while I actually wanted to cry.’
‘Zelda is an iconic voice of our media-struck age, ferociously trying to rectify the gross injustice of her non-celebrity. A character angry, proud, and desperate to be seen.’
—John Sayles, writer and filmmaker
‘A thoroughly delightful new novel—in parts funny, tragic, angry, heartbreaking, caustic, absurd and totally all-too true. A comic geschrei from the heart, and pleasure from first page to last!’
—Steve Kaplan, script consultant, author of The Hidden Tools of Comedy
Содержание
Prologue.
Chapter 1.
Chapter 2.
Chapter 3.
Chapter 4.
Chapter 5.
Chapter 6.
Chapter 7.
Chapter 8.
Chapter 9.
Chapter 10
Chapter 11
Chapter 12
Chapter 13
Chapter 14.
Chapter 15.
Chapter 16.
Chapter 17.
Chapter 18.
Chapter 19.
Chapter 20.
Chapter 21.
Chapter 22.
Chapter 23.
Chapter 24.
Chapter 25.
Chapter 26.
Chapter 27.
Chapter 28.
Chapter 29.
Chapter 30.
Chapter 31.
Chapter 32.
Chapter 33.
Chapter 34.
Chapter 35.
Chapter 36.
Chapter 37.
Chapter 38.
Bibliography.
About the Author
The Spectators Excerpt
Other Books by Betsy Robinson.
Об авторе
Betsy Robinson writes funny fiction about flawed people. Her novel The Last Will & Testament of Zelda Mc Figg won Black Lawrence Press’s 2013 Big Moose Prize and was published in September 2014. When it went out of print in December 2024, a revised second edition was published in January 2025 by Kano Press. In February 2015, Betsy was pleased to have her edit of The Trouble with the Truth by Edna Robinson, Betsy’s late mother, published by Simon & Schuster/Infinite Words. She published revised editions of her Mid-List Press award-winning first novel, a tragicomedy about falling down the rabbit hole of the U.S. of A. in the 1970s, Plan Z by Leslie Kove, when it went out of print. Her articles have been published in Publishers Weekly, Lithub, Oh Reader, The Sunlight Press, Prairie Fire, Salvation South, Next Avenue, and many other publications. Betsy is an editor, fiction writer, journalist, and playwright. Her novels Cats on a Pole and The Spectators were published by Kano Press in 2024. www.Betsy Robinson-writer.com.
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