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Virtualbookworm
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In her fast-paced and funny first novel, Mueller Bryson tells the story of a young woman's wild journey coming to terms with her father's sudden death. Hey Dorothy You're Not in Kansas Anymore is a delightful and engaging tale reminiscent of The Wizard of Oz.
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Dorothy Gale Robinson, an aspiring actress, is the daughter of hippie parents with a passion for old movies. When her father is killed suddenly while sipping a non-fat decaf mocha latte at a local coffee shop, Dorothy's life is turned upside down. After an unconventional dispersing of her father's ashes at the Universal Studios' Psycho House, Dorothy's mother decides to sell all her worldly possessions and join a New Age cult headquartered in Banff, Canada. Of course, Dorothy's twin brother, Jude, is too busy with his law firm to help Dorothy save their mother from the clutches of the sinister cult, so she seeks the aid of her new boyfriend, Lahrs, and a cult-buster, Mervyn O'Roy, who just happens to look like Mickey Rooney. The motley trio venture from Florida to Canada, and through a series of mishaps and misadventures, Dorothy and her fellow rescuers recover Dorothy's mother, and everyone finds a little romance in the Canadian Rockies.
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A magnificant work...let the joyous news be spread.
- Glinda, The Good Witch
I think Dorothy finally made it home with this one!
- Auntie Em
A spectacular feat of stratospheric skill.
- Professor Marvel
If you have half a brain, you'll buy this book.
- The Scarecrow
(Bow) Wow! Wow!
- Toto
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Reader Reviews for "Hey Dorothy You're Not in Kansas Anymore"
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| Reviewed by Carolyn HowardJohnson |
3/18/2003 |
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Hey Dorothy, You’re Not in Kansas Anymore
By Karen Mueller Bryson
Virtualbookworm.com Publishing Inc 2002
ISBN: 1589392388
Fiction Chick Lit
After A Cyclone
Finding the Humor and Future in
Life’s Disasters
Reviewed by Carolyn Howard-Johnson, columnist and reviewer for MyShelf.Com and author of “This is the Place” and “Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered”
I was intrigued by the title of Karen Mueller Bryson’s book, and who wouldn’t be? The English speaking world has been mightily affected by the metaphor of Oz. “Hey Dorothy You’re Not in Kansas Anymore” does not disappoint.
A young woman loses her father in a freak accident. She is one of a family with enough peccadilloes among them to keep any reader fascinated. She decides she will sleep her pain away, her mother decides she will run away with a cult, and brother decides to bury himself in his achievements and try to ignore the whole mess. The pain in this family is palpable but so is their zest for living. Those who loved “Bridget Jones’s Diary” may like this book even better. It has the snap of the new genre called chick lit to which “Diary” is a prominent member; like “Diary” it explores the pain that twenty-somethings often experience in a society that isn’t keen on letting them grow up.
What makes this novel better is that Our Dear Dorothy is just more likeable than Bridget because she is not quite so needy, quite so miserable, is just less of a cookie-cutter character all around.
What makes this novel move along so quickly is the author’s background as a playwright. The dialogue is quick and convincing. The grounding is much like a theater production. The settings are sufficiently presented but do not dominate. Mostly the humor is so natural. I laughed out loud three times in the first two chapters and chuckled even more often. All in all, this book is a good lesson that the absurd may be found in the most agonizing of situations and that it works ever so well as a healer.
(Carolyn Howard-Johnson is the author of the award-winning “Harkening: A Collection of Stories Remembered.”
Leora G. Krygier, author of “First the Raven,” says, “…this goes to the very core of all our memories. I love the way the stories intertwine like pieces of a quilt and it's the reader who puts it together. It's simply magical”.
Learn more at: http://carolynhowardjohnson.htm.)
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