Morlocks in the Basement

By: Carolyn Colburn, Cecilia Kennedy PhD (Editor)

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Paperback | 6 September 2022

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232 Pages

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21.5 x 13.9 x 1.2

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Morlocks in the Basement is an irreverent, bittersweet, often outrageous chronicle of accidental motherhood in the age of fractured families. Love story, soap opera, play-by-play of a train wreck, Carolyn Colburn's debut memoir is not quite like anything you've read before. It's a treatise on housekeeping, a primer for roller skating on acid to Canada and back, a how-to for dodging calls from the county jail concerning "an incarcerated loved one," your daughter. Throw in a cabin in the woods, the howling of wolves, a flying pig, and a couple of incongruous recipes, and you have the ingredients for this riotous odyssey of a memoir. The little voice in your head might be muttering wtf?!?, but you keep hanging on to find out what's coming next. Written with humor and pathos in equal measure, Morlocks in the Basement takes the reader on a hilarious and heartrending ride from a 1950s childhood through the mid 2010s, in a series of connected stories that jump around in time. Part Chelsea Handler, part Erma Bombeck, part nail-biting outlier crouched behind the furnace taking notes, Morlocks in the Basement is a read you won't soon forget.

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"Hard-edged and soft-hearted, Carolyn Colburn bats you around for a while, and then all of a sudden you're there, sunk three feet into domestic tales of love, horror, compassion, and living the life. An amazing read. Irreverent, painful, and full of heart, Carolyn pulls you into her 'elusive longing for revelation, ' and you're never quite the same." --Ellen Bryson, Author of The Transformation of Bartholomew Fortuno

"Ms. Colburn is an astute observer of life -- the trivial and the momentous. She is also funny as hell. I must give this book my highest compliment -- I wish it was twice as long. I have more praise to dispense, but I need to get back to the basement to search for Morlocks." --John Fleer, Author of Dirty Doctors
"Through episodes that leap and turn, Carolyn Colburn's unique voice tells the tale of raising a troubled child in a troubled world. Morlocks in the Basement is a brilliant debut memoir -- fast, funny, wholly original, and deeply moving. Move over Amy Poehler." --Kathleen Novak, Author of Do Not Find Me

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