Meet the Author Series
Friday, April 3, 7-9PM
MTA – Erin O’Brien
Thursday, Feb 2nd
We celebrated another successful launch of author Erin O'Brien's latest book "The Irish Hungarian Guide to the Domestic Arts" to a standing room only crowd. Erin's quick wit and relatable story telling delighted fans new and old. All books on hand were quickly sold out!
MTA – Erin O’Brien
Thursday, Feb 2nd
We celebrated another successful launch of author Erin O'Brien's latest book "The Irish Hungarian Guide to the Domestic Arts" to a standing room only crowd. Erin's quick wit and relatable story telling delighted fans new and old. All books on hand were quickly sold out!
Please support this local author and publishing house.
The Irish Hungarian Guide to the Domestic Arts
By Erin O'Brien
~~Meet the gonzo housewife from Cleveland~~
From The Cleveland Plain Dealer's Minister of Culture Michael Heaton:
"The Irish Hungarian Guide to the Domestic Arts is a wonderfully exuberant and outlandish look on life that is whip-smart, heart-felt and subversively funny enough to cause unsuspecting readers to choke on their guffaws.
Erin O'Brien is a married mom who by her own account doesn’t go to church, swears too much and drinks too much. She is also a middle class champion who calls her tame Cleveland suburb of Broadview Heights “the Cleveland Alps.” O'Brien is a courageous writer who loves words and uses them to lethal effect. She is the first author in the English language to coin the beautiful phrase, “carpe the goddamn diem.”
Put simply, O'Brien kicks ass."
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The Irish Hungrian Guide to the Domestic Arts proves that the Rust Belt is the perfect backdrop for a whirlwind romance, that shopping at the discount grocery is really performance art, and that a half-acre lot in the middle of America is all you need to accommodate a field of dreams.
This book is also a food memoir for the rest of us, wherein a dozen ears of sweet corn turn a humble bowl of chowder into a divine creation, the Hamburger Helper glove dukes it out with a scrappy bowl of slumgullion, and banishing the blues is as easy as lunch with Holly Golightly at the local farmers' market.
A misfit Irish-but-not-Catholic girl from Cleveland's west side, O'Brien is funny and sophisticated, projecting triumph through the lens of the domicile without blinking when sorrow fills the screen. The right measure of quirk and earthy sex separate this book from the Erma Bombeck set, while O'Brien's dry Midwest humor ties it all together.
Coming February 2012 from Red Giant Books
Order The Irish Hungarian on Amazon
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Categories: Creative nonfiction, humor, memoir, food, cooking, narrative nonfiction, food memoir, and essay.
ISBN: 978-0-9829502-5-8
Contact: Dave Megenhardt
216.375.1263
THE ERIN O'BRIEN OWNER'S MANUAL FOR HUMAN BEINGS