Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons
Tales of Redemption from an Irish Mailbox
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Publisher Description
A memoir of growing up in a dysfunctional Irish family by frequent late-night guest and Howard Stern Show veteran Greg Fitzsimmons, as told through a collection of disciplinary letters.
PARENTS: DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME
Greg Fitzsimmons has made a lot of what appear to be bad decisions. It’s what he was raised to do. Most parents would hide or destroy any evidence so clearly demonstrating their child’s failures, but—lucky for us—Greg Fitzsimmons’s family has preserved each mistake in its original envelope like a trophy in a case, lest he ever forget where he came from.
Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons is Greg’s life, told through this cavalcade of disciplinary letters, incident reports, and newspaper clippings that his parents received from teachers and school officials. Greg picks up where his parents left off with his own collection of letters received during college and throughout his successful career as a writer, producer, and stand-up comic. Revealing the larger story of how Greg’s distinctly dysfunctional Irish-American family bred him to blindly challenge anyone, anytime, anywhere, over anything, Dear Mrs. Fitzsimmons comes full circle to show that the Fitzsimmons torch has been passed on proudly to a new generation.
Customer Reviews
great book
Best book i've read while dropping a deuce , not that its a bad book . Its just lately its the only time i have to myself to read a chapter or two ...
Solid book
I really dug this book. Heard Greg before on the usual round of podcasts and really enjoyed his point of view so I figured I'd give his book a shot. The thirty page preview that is and I really liked what I read so I bought the book. There's really no need for me to be any more detailed than that as everything this book is, is really revealed in the preview. It's Gregs life, rather than his act, or attempts to be particularly funny. I loved it and found it quite funny but the style does not change as you progress through the book. And I didn't want it to.
Could not put it Down
This book grabbed me from the start. I could not put it down and pretty much read it in one day. I laughed and almost cried at times. These stories really entertain but have a good message.