Hair-A-Baloo: The Revealing Comedy and Tragedy on Top of Your Head

By Patricia Wynn Brown

"HAIR-sterical Hair-A-Baloo will make you laugh and cry, much the way you do on your worst hair day. Who needs Dr. Phil when we have Patricia Wynn Brown--the hair doctor. Her wit and wisdom make us realize that hair really does make the world go round."
--Tim Bete (Director of the Erma Bombeck Humor Conference and author of In the Beginning...There Were No Diapers.)

Hair-A-Baloo proves it: "It's all about the hair." Hair can make us laugh...cry...and a single strand can send us to prison for life

Who hasn't experienced a touch of hair envy or left the hair salon with a poodle perm? We spend so much time with the mops on top of our heads that it's become a subject for movies, musicals, and gossip columns. We copy celebrity hairstyles, spend hundreds on hair products, and constantly concoct homemade hair treatments in our kitchen. Hair has even played a major role throughout history. Who could forget Samson and Delilah or the 1920s, when every woman in America wanted to bob her hair?

This forty-billion-dollar industry is given the royal "treatment" with Brown's wicked sense of humor. Take a break from the blow dryer and curl up with Hair-A-Baloo.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0595346715
• ISBN13: 9780595346714
• Release Date: May 2005
• Publisher: iUniverse
• Length: 196 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.0" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Laughter is Great Medicine

In 1997, author Pat Wynn Brown was diagnosed with malignant melanoma. She admits that losing her hair was first on her mind as she dealt with this possibly fatal disease. Now, 7 years later and cancer free, Ms Brown helps other cancer patients by performing an original, comedy show about hair. Hair Theatre takes a loving look at women's obsession with their hair. If the show is anything like her book "Hair-a-baloo," the cancer patients are leaving the building as healthier people. After all, laughter is great medicine. In the book, "Hair-a-baloo" the author shares story after hilarious story of hair antics and trauma. Oddly enough I can relate to almost every one of them. Every story proves how important our hair is to each of us. Whether we want to admit to our attachment or not, hair seems to take first place in all of our plans. Ms. Brown asks, "Have you made peace with the DNA doled out to you?" Patricia Wynn Brown tells many her own personal stories and shows that everyone has a hair story to tell. Our hair experiences are so traumatic that we will remember them and can retell the story for years to come. Fortunately, in looking back, we can laugh at the mishaps and disasters - usually. Brown has a sense of humor that all can relate to, - uncontrived and honest fun. "Hair speaks. Sometimes it even roars." When you need cheered up but don't have much time, this is the perfect book to pick up for a chuckle. Each chapter stands on its own and even a paragraph or two will make your day. This is a terrific book for hair lovers everywhere.