Pamela Ribbon Why Moms Are Weird

Why Moms Are Weird

Pamela Ribbon

Downtown, Aug 2006, $13.00

ISBN: 1416503854

Belinda "Benny Boobenstein" Bernstein, "Boobs" for short, lives in Virginia while her mother resides in the "past" in Los Angeles. Benny rarely gets home especially since her dad died as she lives a busy life in the east watching the fourth season of Mr. Show and besides her mom is a weirdo; she is the one who dubbed her Boobenstein when she was thirteen.

However, when mom breaks her leg in a car accident, Benny rushes home to help her while she recovers. Benny is totally unprepared for the animals cohabitating with her mom, her sister's ex-convict boyfriend, the junk piled everywhere in the house of which none seemed to belong to moms, and the hunk doing yard work. Benny plans to fix everything before she heads back to Virginia, but who will mend her broken heart when she leaves Mickey in California?

The Bernstein brood makes the Sycamore clan (You Can't Take It With You) look functional leading to an inane but amusing contemporary romance. Besides her family members seeming more at home in the cuckoo's nest, the heroine's asides clearly prove she is part of the family tree; anyone who compares herself to the Texas tower mass murderer is playing electronic solitaire with fifty-one cards. Though overwhelming with its dysfunctional relationships, chick lit readers will laugh with the antics of the Bernstein Boob Bears.

Harriet Klausner