By Marti MacGibbon
ISBN-10: 0986006734
ISBN-13: 9780986006739
An Award-winning Memoir!
WINNER of the eleventh Annual nationwide Indie Excellence Awards, Women’s well-being Category
FINALIST, Humor Category
Fierce, humorous, and Female is winner of the 2017 nationwide Indie Excellence Awards within the Women’s future health type, and a finalist within the Humor classification. This publication is the prequel to the severely acclaimed, nationally award-winning and bestselling memoir, Never supply in to Fear. In her uncooked, shiny, and unabashed variety, writer Marti MacGibbon grants a occasionally heartbreaking, usually hilarious, consistently enticing account of her passage via trauma, betrayal, and loss in youth and younger maturity to find her internal badass self. As one of many first ladies to paintings as a laborer within the Texas oil box, she trigger explosives and staked oil wells prior to figuring out her formative years dream of changing into a winning standup comedian. Marti introduces readers to quite a lot of characters in her lifestyles: from sleazy authority figures, wannabe Sixties musicians and crazed Corn Belt cult leaders, to Texas oil billionaires and wildcatters, to wild-eyed redneck coworkers who robbed banks on their lunch hour—in the corporate truck. The ebook contains scenes with iconic comedians, Hollywood leisure moguls, and a mythical bluesman, and provides insights into resiliency, braveness, and self-empowerment.
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