Miss You Like Crazy

by Eliza Clark

A re-issue of the exhilarating, highly acclaimed first novel from the author of Bite the Stars.“Maylou wanted to feel buoyant and gung ho. She wanted to feel like a grand prize winner in life's sweepstakes, but with her mama newly dead, buried under ground like a bulb that could come to pretty flower only in her mind, she thought herself destined to remain swampy and downtrodden.”

Miss You Like Crazy is a road novel belonging to Maylou Puce Turner, a young woman whose beloved mama dies “somewhat triumphantly” after winning a game of gin rummy in a steamy Florida trailer park. Suddenly alone with her distraught old daddy, Maylou embarks on a weird and wonderful odyssey to put her mama to rest and somehow get everyone back to Kansas.

Originally published in 1991, Miss You Like Crazy will be re-issued to coincide with the author's latest book, Bite the Stars. This is an exuberant and moving debut novel about the steely bond between mother and daughter, and proves without doubt that the best humor is rooted in tragedy.

218 pages, Paperback

First published September 1, 1993

About the author

Eliza Clark is a Canadian writer.

Born in Toronto, Ontario, she received a Bachelor of Fine Arts from York University in 1985. She now works steadily as a television producer/director, fiction writer and story editor for both text and film. Clark has also taught creative writing at Ryerson University, the Humber School for Writers and York University.

Reviews

[Jen]

This was a very funny road trip novel about a young woman who journey's from Florida to Kansas carrying her dead mother's ashes. It's written in the form of aphorisms and cliches strung togehter in truly original and poetic wayss. I don't always like road trip books where tghe main character runs into kooky psycics, but i liked this a lot.