This is a collection of essays written for people who ride the bus to work. Each of them is one bus ride long – OK, depending on where you live and work, but this isn’t Hemingway. Honestly. But who’s read Hemingway since sophomore year? It’s a glimpse in to a life just like theirs, but one lived without an edit. Oops!

The Red Rhino might have been written by Lucy Ricardo herself if she’d ditched Ethel, sublet the apartment, divorced, first Ricky, then the owner of the chocolate factory where she worked, then the drummer at the Tropicana, and had finally gotten a life, a real one. This book takes the reader on a ride ranging from the author’s bizarre class reunion antics, humiliating rejection by the local PTA, and even a case of mistaken identity between a church youth group and a Red Rhino.

Red Rhino might make you laugh out loud.