Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It?

Every mother knows best, but New Yorker writer Patty Marx's knows better. Patty has never been able to shake her mother's one-line witticisms from her brain, so she's collected them into a book, accompanied by full colour illustrations by New Yorker staff cartoonist Roz Chast.

These snappy maternal cautions include:

• If you feel guilty about throwing away leftovers, put them in the back of your refrigerator for five days and then throw them out.
• If you run out of food at your dinner party, the world will end.
• When travelling, call the hotel from the airport to say there aren't enough towels in your room and, by the way, you'd like a room with a better view.
• Why don't you write my eulogy now so I can correct it?

Why Don't You Write My Eulogy Now So I Can Correct It? is a delightful collection that every child will want to buy for mum on Mother's Day!