The author of the *New York Times* bestseller *The Idiot Girls’ Action-Adventure Club* tackles her biggest challenge yet: grown-up life. In **Autobiography of a Fat Bride** , Laurie Notaro tries painfully to make the transition from all-night partyer and bar-stool regular to mortgagee with plumbing problems and no air-conditioning. Laurie finds grown-up life just as harrowing as her reckless youth, as she meets Mr. Right, moves in, settles down, and crosses the toe-stubbing threshold of matrimony. From her mother’s grade-school warning to avoid kids in tie-dyed shirts because their hippie parents spent their food money on drugs and art supplies; to her night-before-the-wedding panic over whether her religion is the one where you step on the glass; to her unfortunate overpreparation for the mandatory drug-screening urine test at work; to her audition as a *Playboy* centerfold as research for a newspaper story, **Autobiography of a Fat Bride** has the same zits-and-all candor and outrageous humor that made Idiot Girls an instant cult phenomenon. In **Autobiography of a Fat Bride** , Laurie contemplates family, home improvement, and the horrible tyrannies of cosmetic saleswomen. She finds that life doesn’t necessarily get any easier as you get older. But it does get funnier.