Hen House Press, LLC

Burb Appeal Too is a humorous collection of essays based on Tina Traster's newspaper columns about moving from the city to the suburbs. In these brief stories, Traster uses keen detail, humor and pathos to tell how she has embraced and navigated life in a rural suburb north of Manhattan. In these stories we meet nutty neighbors, bumbling town officials, new friends, a plethora of domestic and wild animals, and of course, her family. Table of Contents: Introduction I’ll Only Leave Manhattan in a Body Bag Call of the Wild Plowin’ Ahead What's On Deck? Monster Houses My Space You Goat Girl Yikes, That’s News To Me The Write Place Points of View Cool Justice Give A Boy A Hoe Helloooo, Can Anyone Hear Me? Almost Purrfect Timber! Driving Me Nuts Back To The Land C’mon Baby Light My Fire Apples in Winter This Newbie Is Here To Stay Seven-Year Niche Less Is More Kitchen Stadium Clutter Be Gone! Rubble Trouble Downsizing Our Taxes Smokey the Bear is Frowning It’s the Pits Away They Go Airing Dirty Laundry Accidents Will Happen Fresh Eggs Sold Here Snow-Bawling Tool Time Hill Of A Job Bamboo-zling a Neighbor Who Stole My Chicken? Northern Exposure Party Planning All Fall Down The Great Lake A Match For Patch Leaves & Bounds Miracle, Grow Feeling the Freeze Unsolved Mysteries Time to Spring Forward Home Movie Smell Test Living Where the Wild Things Are Shot Heard Round The World The Time Of My Leaf Surviving the Snow Daze Another One Bites the Dust Home is Where the History is About the Author: Tina Traster is the author of Burb Appeal Too, a collection of her columns as they appeared in her New York Post “Burb Appeal” column. She is also the author of Hits & Misses: New York Entrepreneurs Reveal Their Strategies, available as an eBook from Amazon.com and Barnes & Noble. Traster writes The Great Divide blog for The Huffington Post. Her work has appeared in newspapers, magazines, literary journals and on NPR. Her essays have been anthologized in literary collections Living Lessons and Mammas and Pappas. Traster is writing a memoir about her adopted Russian daughter.