| Title | : | Big Girls Don't Fry: Rehoboth Beach Wrap-Up (Tales from Rehoboth Beach Book 6) |
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| ISBN | : | 1612942903 |
| ISBN-10 | : | 9781612942902 |
| Language | : | English |
| Format Type | : | Kindle Edition |
| Number of Pages | : | 294 |
| Publication | : | Published April 23, 2024 |
As the author of five previous humorous memoirs, activist and comedian Fay Jacobs returns with her FINAL collection of tall tales, Big Girls Don’t Rehoboth Beach Wrap Up. And, as you’d expect, It’s chock-full of Fay’s signature witty, wise, and often laugh-out-loud commentary about the craziness of contemporary life in the diverse and welcoming resort town of Rehoboth Beach on the Delaware Coast.
This time, though, everyone’s favorite “Sit-Down Comic” tangles with the after-effects of an insane election, kissing penguins, riding an opinionated camel, wearing pussy hats, and masking in the time of Covid . . .
Big Girls Don’t Fry was compiled over the last few years, beginning in January 2021 and ending with an urgent plea to get out and vote for our lives. It chronicles her chronic losing battle with nature and changing technology, revisits some of her greatest hits and misses, deals with the ups and downs of social distancing, masking, and video happy hours, and reflects on what it was like to be honored by a troop of Girl Scouts.
And through it all, Fay finds a way to make her stories provocative, political, occasionally heartwarming, and reliably hilarious.
It’s all captured in the final installment of Fay Jacobs’ award-winning Tales from Rehoboth Series.
Come along for the ride—you’ll be happy you did!
Big Girls Don't Fry: Rehoboth Beach Wrap-Up (Tales from Rehoboth Beach Book 6) Reviews
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‘Wow, I hope this means I’ve got plenty of years before seeking communal help’ – Pure delight!
Delaware author Fay Jacobs easily aligns with those humorists current and past who are astute observers of the human condition in general, unafraid to discuss aging in a humorous manner, tell whopper tales that are in truth actual observations, and at the same time insert enough compassion that she deserves a big hug. She is a champion for the LGBT community, especially the microcosm that inhabits Rehoboth Beach, Delaware, but she doesn't limit her keen insight to her own special collective society: this is a book of her journalistic tirades and exposés and commentary on everyday life that comes from her years as an astute journalist, writing for The Advocate, Curve, OutTraveler, The Washington Post, Delaware Beach Life, Baltimore Sun, Chesapeake Bay Magazine, Delaware Today and Wilmington News Journal!
BIG GIRLS DON’T FRY is the sixth (and final) volume of Fay’s Rehoboth Beach series and covers the territory between 2017 and 2024 – tidbits and thoughts and tales about the crazy world in which we are living as mirrored through her observations at Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. As has been said, ‘This time, though, everyone’s favorite “Sit-Down Comic” grapples with the insanity of a high-tech bra, cartoon bladders in prescription advertising, and refusing to act her age.’ Wholly entertaining and as insightful as it is hilarious, this new volume has something for every reader to help turn down the volume and turn up the lights on our current world conundrum! -
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Joyfully Jay review.
4 stars
This is the sixth book in the Tales from Rehoboth Beach series, which are collected essays from Jacobs’ column, and they wander from topic to topic with a cheerful disregard. Collected from the years 2017 to 2023, each essay is well written, conversational, and quick, lasting just long enough to entertain, but never lingering either on the unpleasant topics — such as Covid, anti-LGBTQ+ laws, aging, and loss. Jacobs clearly cares a great deal about people, gay or straight or in between, and her compassion and empathy are evident in every story she tells.
It’s the sort of book, I think, best taken in small bites — a couple of entries here, a couple there — rather than sitting down to binge.
Read Elizabeth’s review in its entirety
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Fay is a national treasure.
I’ve enjoyed all of Fay’s “Frying” series and this finale is no exception. Whether she is poking fun at herself or making a serious point, she is witty and often hilarious. We should all age as “gracelessly” as Fay. Her exploits with her Rehoboth Beach pals are the stuff local legend and her home life with Bonnie and the Schnauzers is nothing short of , dare I say it, humorously normal. Thanks, Fay…for everything.
