I, Kitty: A Collection of Very Short Stories

If Erma Bombeck and Chelsea Handler had met up and engineered their intellectual lovechild, she would be Kitty Davenport. These essays represent Kitty Davenport's debut. They are about the fine art of appreciating and disrupting rural Tennessee. She drags her past as a standout, privileged blonde weirdo from Los Angeles right into central east western Tennessee farm living today. She hails from the "more is more" school of collecting dogs and anything else. Currently, she obsesses over her 32 vintage sewing machines. Unlike Tom Hanks' famous, meticulously curated stash of vintage manual typewriters, Kitty's does not need her stash to function. She requires that each sewing machine must emit classy mid-mod colors and vibes. Travel with Kitty from the heights of eccentric wealth to love and health as she navigates life from her Mr. Magoo-style 20s to her solid, pickleball raptures at 60. Meet Hank Finn, her country born-and-bred-farmer-engineer who is still parsing the icy tail of Comet Kitty. His life will never be the same. Every month there is a new piece of decorative Staub Cookware living in her car. This is because it takes a week or two for these crucial cookware items to march themselves into the kitchen. This wickedly funny person navigates real life with verve and style, despite her early life burden of white privilege.