Don't Mind Me, I Just Died: On Time, Tennis, and Unforgiving Mothers - Softcover

"Caroline Sutton's voice is distinctive, the questions she asks are elemental, and the answers ... well, that's one of the many appealing things about Don't Mind Me I Just Died Sutton knows there are neither answers nor destinations, only a voyage she takes with her readers." --Daniel Okrent, author of Last Call: The Rise and Fall of Prohibition

"The details in these essays are so wonderfully precise they are at times Nabokovian, the emotions subtle but resonant, and always the intellect is sharp as a knife: Caroline offers a look into a private woman's world with the delicious company of her observant eye, her artist's wit, and her very human affection, whether for her mother, a leopard cub, tennis, or home. Each sentence is a pleasure: it is clear how, in Caroline's hands, the craft of the essay has been polished with care, each a small gem." --Gina Apostol, author of Gun Dealer's Daughter

"Caroline Sutton's book of essays. Don't Mind Me, I Just Died: On Time, Tennis, and Unforgiving Mothers, is at once revealing and reticent. We completely trust the teller, and want as much as she will give us as she takes us on her journey through the deterioration of her formidable mother. There are life lessons from tennis, and the harrowing yet amusing abyss between her reserved, formal family and her husband's bohemian one. She includes changes in her marriage--and the lives and deaths of beloved dogs. There are Seventies road trips and her father's Second World War experiences that he related with an objectivity that creates as much amazement as the experiences themselves. All of these things are sometimes told obliquely, but always told with inspiring grace and intensity." --Meredith Sue Willis, Books for Readers