| The gems here treat topics such as politics, relationships, parents, hair, dieting, and aging with wry irreverence. It features humor from some of the most well-known women writers today: Wendy Wasserstein, Delia Ephron, Anna Quindlen, Kathy Najimy, Gloria Steinem, Yeardley Smith, Christine Lavin, Julie Gold, Flash Rosenberg, Janette Barber, Julie Halston, M. Sweeney Lawless, Fran Capo, Anna Collins, Elisa DeCarlo, Martha Trachtenberg, and many others.
And all this funny business is for three good causes: All the royalties and a percentage of the proceeds will be donated to The American Foundation for AIDS Research (AmFAR), the National Coalition Against Domestic Violence, and the National Alliance of Breast Cancer Organizations (NABCO).
About the Editor: ANNE SAFRAN DALIN has raised money and consciousness for a number of organizations for the past 20 years, including Ronald McDonald House, Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation (Race for the Cure ®), and America's Second Harvest food banks in New Jersey and Pennsylvania. Her fundraising efforts have included producing concert series and community awareness events, bringing in much needed funds for charity.
About the Illustrator: In addition to her contribution of five cartoon-texts, original illustrations by the uniquely-talented, multi-humorist, FLASH ROSENBERG, kick off each chapter. Her signature-style Connected Laughing Women doodle graces the inside covers. Don't miss her touring, one-woman comic slide-performance, "Camping in the Bewilderness."
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