Chatterbox: Stories from a Noisy Life
Book Description.
Barbara Worton’s Chatterbox: Stories from a Noisy Life is a vivid, humorous, and deeply human collection of personal essays, memories, and reflections on growing up, growing older, and everything in between. From loud family dinners in Long Island to quiet moments of introspection, Worton captures what it means to be a lifelong observer in a world full of chaos, charm, and contradiction.
With sharp wit, warmth, and an eye for cultural detail, Chatterbox explores everything from pasta sauce and plastic slipcovers to Frank Sinatra, teenage crushes, marching for justice, and the memories we all carry differently. Worton’s storytelling invites readers to find pieces of themselves in her recollections—moments that are by turns nostalgic, poignant, and laugh-out-loud funny.
Chatterbox is published by Susan Schadt Press and is available in print and eBook formats at independent booksellers, Amazon, Barnes & Noble, Books-A-Million, Bookshop.org, Powell’s, and more!
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“Everybody has something to say in Barbara Worton’s Chatterbox, her right-of-passage memoir... Her essays are small touch points that trigger definitions for ourselves. It is a read to remember.”
“Barbara Worton’s collection of stories is as satisfying and rich as her grandmother’s Sunday Sauce... Expect to leave her world feeling more connected to our own.”
“The stories, vignettes, poems, and musings in Barbara Worton’s delightful, far-ranging collection are the outpouring of a writer who has been ‘watching, cataloging, and analyzing’ her whole life... You’ll wish this chatterbox would never shut up.”
“As a filmmaker, I know the power of personal stories to connect people across all sorts of experiences... Barbara’s stories have that power.”
“Barbara Worton’s Chatterbox is a flash non-fiction trip down a long-lost memory lane... It shines a klieg light on our common history... and the humor that it takes to survive it all.”
“I felt like I climbed into the rumble seat alongside Barbara... Each story was vivid, well-shaped, and lovingly preserved.”
“Chatterbox is tender and tough, smooth and coarse... Barbara Worton illustrates life’s beautiful contrasts... This is work that ignites memory and the senses...”
“Barbara grew up thinking that ‘I have to be me. But why do I make so many mistakes?’... She became a terrific writer, unafraid to get out of her comfort zone.”
“Barbara Worton's wonderful memoir Chatterbox... takes us through the meandering path of growing up... A book I couldn’t put down.”
“Barbara Worton’s interconnected narratives tell the tale of a formative time... written with humor, keen observations, and love.”
“As if I wasn’t seduced enough by Worton’s stories of ‘good girl cursive’ and walking past John Lennon... this volume invites memory, wonder, and hope.”
