European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - August 4, 1977, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Magazine psychobabble and soybean canapes a of California Suburbia satirist Cyra Mcfadden in going to be really up front with you by Nan kobe11tson new York tires be a Lime Lime before any body in Marin dares to speak freely to Icausi a woman named Cyra who an admittedly wicked Eye and a wicked has been taking even thing Dawn about the liberated life in the Northern California the heart of whish is Mill the result is a divas lastingly funny parody written in Lial she culls the Lan Guage of its inhabitants her books title is the Stria a year in tie Lije of Marin and reviewers Are calling it the most audacious satire in american Suburbia since Early Peter de Mcfadden admitted with Relief in a new York interview hat things seemed a lot saner Oil the East canst than Luck Luroe in California let me give Yea an i ample of Tot psychobabble they talk in Marin count Yim going to be really up Rani Tui i dont know where your Bead but in going la Tell Yuu what apace pm its she purports to be the Lan Guage of feeling and but its really totally without Content or Emo in s automatic her students in the school where she taught English were just As according to they i cant eel behind an essay in just not in that place right or id assign them a Book and they i just cant relate to the she finds both the language and he style of life in the trendier circles in Northern California absolutely 1 thought California was bizarre when i moved Here 15 years ago and 1 still find it its exotic let me Tell the Lite Mcfadden dissects with deadly accuracy includes creative divorce human life wine living together relation children named Tamalia and pets with names like Kal natural lentil Liber ated teenagers who live on Broccoli and join the weddings on mow being Laid Back and staying Mellow at All it features that average Kate and who break go their separate ways and Niter exploring their options Kate joins a commune looking fur a Mellow female where Ibe plan for in Donas Quarter gel Back to Gether Mcfadden and her husband who pedals his i Speed bicycle 14 Miles daily from their Marin county trod House to his import Export business in san appear in bits and pieces in her Thi author from her who will tin 17 next she among other about the right Rock bands to include in her i was poking fun at everybody so 1 thought i might As Well include i m absolutely fascinated by Peoples lives and i cannot refrain from in in a pathological taker us notes and am constantly scribbling All Over paper napkins and grocery besides being an incurable eaves the author has peripheral like come people have peripheral i can Monitor conversations m Yards away while somebody talking to a lot of the language was a literal transcription of the thing id with i Wist for comic who is was bom and raised in she went to the University of Wisconsin far a year and then dropped out and married one of my when the marriage ended after five she migrated 10 the West coast supporting herself and daughter Carrie on a series of secretariat i have a liberated Secretary in the serial who int into making Coffee for the head but 1 was the other she 1 had to make the Coffee for the Board of but it was inappropriate for me to drink in with the movers and she went Back to school in 1969 and got bachelors and masters degrees at san Francisco stale in order to teach she had Long since become a closet but with Little published except Book ii second tired of apartment living in san wanted grass and a it acc to so they moved it Marin we went North Over the Golden Gate Bridge and then through a Tunnel painted in Rainbow the said 1 fell As if we were entering Lotus there she in this whole High Energy trip with Ali these happen info As the denizens of Marin put her uncanny ear and Eye came to the notice of the editor of the weekly who asked her to write a series o columns about it began in Noyem Bei and brought a torrent of Boll pro and Mcfadden end pc sly running internal tap recorder was being supplemented she by a whole quota of deep who would Call it up and rattle off delicious bits of Dia the original series of about 30 column was expanded into a Book of 52 episodes one for each week of the for to is packaged like a Lor Eleaf notebook Anc illustrated with dead pan pictures by tour in the final the wandering Kali and Harry Are pronounced conjoined per sons in a typically Zany ceremony Iha was billed on the invitations As a celeb re Tion of open commitment and feeling sex a guest comments on the this really the Al that whole wheat the Millet Stro the Brown Rice and i jus had one of those soybean and i Wanna Tell there something August 1977 the stars and stripes Page 1