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"Smart, hilarious, unique-- just terrific." --Anne Lamott A thoughtful, witty memoir from the author of How to Be a Person in the World and the popular advice column, Ask Polly.  When Heather Havrilesky was a kid during the '70s, harrowing disaster films dominated every movie screen with earthquakes that destroyed huge cities, airplanes that plummeted towards the ground and giant sharks that ripped teenagers to shreds. Between her parents' dramatic clashes and her older siblings' hazing, Heather's home life sometimes mirrored the chaos onscreen.  Disaster Preparedness charts how the most humiliating and painful moments in Havrilesky's past forced her to develop a wide range of defense mechanisms, some adaptive, some piteously ill-suited to modern life. From premature boxing lessons to the competitive grooming of cheerleading camp, from her parents' divorce to her father's sudden death, Havrilesky explores a path from innocence and optimism to self-protection and caution, bravely reexamining the injuries that shaped her, the lessons that sunk in along the way, and the insights that carried her through.  Disaster Preparedness is a road map to the personal disasters we all face from a

Who reads Disaster Preparedness : A Memoir?

Author

Heather Havrilesky

Publisher

Penguin Publishing Group

Published

2010

Language

EN

ISBN

9781594485466

Category

humor

Subjects

Memoir, Family & Relationships, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.39 / 5 (454 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14