Is a French Fry and Further Proof of My Fuzzed-Up LifeColleen Sydor. To Eli, there's nothing more disgusting than pregnancy. Halevy, More Than A Mom: Living a Full and Balanced Life when your Child has. It seems her mom can't do much more to aggravate Eli - and then gets pregnant. The too-frank sex-talks, the penchant for clothing that resembles flour sacks the list goes on. Everything she says and does drives Eli crazy. Nobody's parents, though, are as wacko as Eli's mom. He's the boy in her class who shares her appreciation of rock band Decapitated Heads and also happens to have problems with his dad. My Mother Is a French Fry and Further Proof of My Fuzzed-Up Life, which won the 2009 McNally Robinson Book for Young People, has just been followed by The McGillicuddy Book of Personal Records (Red Deer Press). Eli's best friend has two dads, both tres cool, and neither dresses up as fast food for a living. Colleen Sydor Colleen Sydor first established herself with delightful books for young readers. French fries? How can her mother be so unembarrassable? When 15-year-old Eli Smyth isn't fuming over her mother's goofy jobs and total lack of inhibition, she's envious of Grace. Families come in many forms in the animal kingdom, Eli's teacher had informed her. It makes Eli cringe when her mother comes home proudly dressed in a foam rubber French fry suit after her first day as a mascot for Burgers 'n' Fries.
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