By Marti MacGibbon
ISBN-10: 0986006734
ISBN-13: 9780986006739
An Award-winning Memoir!
WINNER of the eleventh Annual nationwide Indie Excellence Awards, Women’s health and wellbeing Category
FINALIST, Humor Category
Fierce, humorous, and Female is winner of the 2017 nationwide Indie Excellence Awards within the Women’s wellbeing and fitness class, and a finalist within the Humor class. This ebook is the prequel to the significantly acclaimed, nationally award-winning and bestselling memoir, Never provide in to Fear. In her uncooked, bright, and unabashed type, writer Marti MacGibbon gives you a occasionally heartbreaking, usually hilarious, continuously enticing account of her passage via trauma, betrayal, and loss in formative years and younger maturity to find her internal badass self. As one of many first girls to paintings as a laborer within the Texas oil box, she trigger explosives and staked oil wells ahead of knowing her youth dream of turning into a winning standup comedian. Marti introduces readers to quite a lot of characters in her existence: from sleazy authority figures, wannabe Sixties musicians and crazed Corn Belt cult leaders, to Texas oil billionaires and wildcatters, to wild-eyed redneck coworkers who robbed banks on their lunch hour—in the corporate truck. The e-book contains scenes with iconic comedians, Hollywood leisure moguls, and a mythical bluesman, and provides insights into resiliency, braveness, and self-empowerment.
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