Anyone can be misheard, Joyce Carol Oates has created an amazing book on just the effects on the person who has bee misheard. Big mouth and Ugly girl is an easy read and can be related to very easily. Oates has found a way to tell this story in a way where being misheard can cause you to go through many problems for simply telling a joke. Oates shows there is always someone who will look after you even in your darkest of days. Big mouth and Ugly girl is a great story, a simple read, and provides great examples of finding friendship, even when you are stuck in the mud.