Are You My Uber? - A Parody 9780575115040

Are You My Uber? - A Parody 9780575115040We've all been there. It's late. Maybe you've had a few drinks. You've decided against taking the subway and instead, to call an Uber. The app says it has arrived, but . . . where is it? Where is your Uber? Are You My Uber? is a direct parody of the 1960 P. D. Eastman children's book Are You My Mother? The scene is set as a young woman steps off the midnight bus at Port Authority. Her name? Unknown. Her goal? To find her Uber, an elusive Ford Taurus.

By turns comic and tragic

Jonathan Safran Foer presents the essential debate of our time as no one else could

Grant himself gave it years earlier: his SPecialists in the Odd and the OCcult - his SPOOKS

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a 16-page fact guide

lost nearly half his fingers to frostbite

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It includes a selection of stunning hikes

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which has come to symbolise the shimmering jazz age of African townships in the 1950s

Short stories remain the most interesting form of story telling over the centuries

Ingela Arrhenius' illustrations are a real bonus