With a handful of musty wrinkled papers torn carefully from an old notebook, Lisa Larsen, a ten-year-old child, produced her first book. With painstaking accuracy, she scrawled out words and phrases and sentences until at last her masterpiece was complete. A book cover of old cardboard enveloped the brittle pages, and with pride and satisfaction she slipped her creation between Hemingway and Cheever in the burgeoning bookcase in the den.

Lisa is no longer that ten-year old child, but publishing her debut book, Three-Quarters Dead, awarded her the same gifts of pride and satisfaction she felt decades ago.  Originally written as an instructional guide for her six adult children to use when she got old and dotty, the book soon began to nudge her in a different direction. Three-Quarters Dead cracked open and blossomed in new ways, inviting all to enjoy the witty humor right alongside the sobering seriousness life sometimes presents to us.

Within the pages of Larsen’s book you’ll find thought-provoking chapters on attributes like wisdom and gratitude, as well as humorous sections that keep the book lighthearted and inviting. Perhaps best of all, Larsen shares glimpses of her personal life and experiences that drive home basic truths and end with a moral. A short book for short attention spans, Three-Quarters Dead will both enlighten and entertain readers of any age.