Now in paperback comes the affectionate, hysterically funny tour of America's most outrageous absurdities from a master humorist. Delivering the brilliant comic musings that are his hallmark, Bryson, who recently returned to the U.S. after living abroad for 20 years, proves that there's truly no place like home, especially if it's in America.

" Painfully funny and genuinely insightful...Bryson has never been wittier or more endearing."
-- San Francisco Chronicle
" Wonderfully droll...Bryson is unparalleled in his ability to cut a culture off at the knees in a way that is so humorous and so affectionate that those being ridiculed are laughing too hard to take offense."
-- The Wall Street Journal
" Bill Bryson makes writing look too easy."
-- USA Today
" A cross between de Tocqueville and Dave Barry, Bryson writes about today's America in a way that's both trenchantly observant and pound-on-the-floor, snort-root-beer-out-of-your-nose funny."
-- San Francisco Examiner
" Bill Bryson could write an essay about dryer lint or fever reducers and still make us laugh out loud."
-- Chicago Sun-Times