Yossarian Slept Here

A finely crafted, wonderfully observed reminiscence on an extraordinary, often traumatic life * Independent on Sunday *
An affectionate, no-punches-pulled, often hilarious memoir * Herald *
Both charming and combative * New York Times *
As soon as I read the opening I was determined and eager to consume everything that followed, up to and including the Pot Roast – Christopher Hitchens, author of Hitch-22
Heller’s domestic side is evoked with painful detail by his daughter, Erica, in her well written, occasionally harrowing memoir, Yossarian Slept Here * Sunday Times *
A likeable memoir…Yossarian Slept Here gives us the gruff, arrogant big shot; the smug cocky fellow who sometimes showed up to friend’s cocktail parties for the sheer fun of insulting them * Financial Times *
Erica Heller…seems to have weathered her girlhood better than most daughters of celebrated literary lions… Heller’s book shows a robust acceptance of her father’s overbearing personality and Don Draperesque approach to marriage and fatherhood… The New York of the period leaps off the page * Independent *
With wit punctuating lambent nostalgia, Erica Heller brings her father to life in an animated, absorbing fashion, documenting his quirky habits, celebrity, and “invisible, unfathomable inner cycle,” but also her parents’ divorce and Heller’s suffering with Guillain-Barre syndrome. The total effect is akin to leafing through a bulging family scrapbook where one finds a few blurry images among many snapshots in sharp focus. Erica Heller has inherited her father’s finely tuned flair with words * Publishers Weekly *
Intimate, yet well-researched..comedic and poignant, her many-faceted memoir is rendered in high-definition as Heller recounts meals, travels, parties, arguments, lies, and the serious illnesses that afflicted her and her parents. Writing with wit, compassion, aplomb, and no little wonder at what her father wrought and her mother endured and how this legacy shaped her, Heller presents an involving and invaluable work of personal and cultural history. * Booklist *
Heller’s family memoir brims with warm reflections right from the opening chapters… An affectionate family scrapbook crafted with a bittersweet blend of humor and pathos * Kirkus Reviews *

Erica Heller is the daughter of Joseph Heller, author of Catch-22. An advertising copywriter, novelist and creative consultant, her work has appeared in the New York Observer and on The Huffington Post. She lives in New York.

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