THAT'S A FUNNY STORY: A Fictional Memoir

By Elise Rivero

THAT'S A FUNNY STORY begins one night in Los Angeles when 16-year-old Carida's father runs off with the strumpet from the bank without leaving behind so much as a good-bye note. It's a story of a young woman who gives up everything for an impossible marriage to a brilliant and handsome but violent man and the runaway roller coaster they would call a family. Of a grandfather with a simple dream derailed. Of an aunt who talks to dead people and an uncle who reads comic books to forget the aunt. Of an exorcist who likes rum and a political revolution that upends everything. But revolutions can't stop life and adapting to a new one in a foreign country with too many consonants in its language is not easy. The best-intentioned efforts often fall short and occasionally take a turn for the hilarious--although not for Carida who just wants to be a normal American kid, something she knows will never happen unless she looks outside the family. This is also that story. Equal parts character study, dark comedy, and Caribbean magic, this is a book you'll want to read more than once. "Witty, moving, and entirely unpredictable."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: B0D7VGSGHP
• ISBN13: 9798329265392
• Release Date: June 2024
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 295 Pages
• Weight: 0.87 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.7" x 5.0"