"Short-story and magazine writer Chater brings an ear for dialogue and an eye for the absurd to this tragicomic debut memoir about coming of age in the 1970s in an ultraconservative Catholic family."
— Kirkus Review
"It's not fair that Veronica Chater had such a spectacularly bizarre childhood, or that she has the blazing literary talent to bring it to life on the page, but I laughed so hard reading her book that I can forgive her her advantages."
— Micheal Lewis
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- Driven to Become an Auto Mechanic
- Sisters
- Marriage in a Window
- Love, Tween Style
- Flea Spit
- The Overprotective Kind
- Mosquitoes Be Damned
- Guacamole and Turnips
- Your Epidermis is Showing
- Shame-Broiled Steak
- Stark Raving Mom
- Polly Wants So Much More Than a Cracker
- John Donne: Bulimic Bore?
- Walk Out
- Brave the Rave
- The Good Mother
- Family Campout
- Apocalypse at the Barbecue
- My Damned Saintly Mother
- Total Recall
- Wrong Way to Happiness
- Plus more than 60 feature articles
✎ Novel
midwyfe
Eve Jourdemayne, a midwife physician in 15th century England, makes contraceptives and emmenagogues for the local townswomen against the witchcraft laws of the Church.
✎ Memoir
woman in a suitcase
Abducted from her apartment by a suspected serial killer, the author barely escapes with her life, then spends years unable to believe she did.
✎ Novel
in flight, the albatross
Tina Jowett, a college English professor, becomes obsessed with a bedraggled street poet. When he pursues her on the street and she is injured by a car, she relives their three lives together as father and son, brothers, and married couple.
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I write true stories. I write fiction. Both happen. One way or another.