Her book, My Boyfriend Barfed in My Handbag...and Other Things You Can't Ask Martha, was a New York Times best-seller.
Writing for The New York Times, Dwight Garner called My Boyfriend Barfed "the Lorrie Moore short story, or the Tina Fey memoir, of cleaning tutorials...[a] wise and funny new book.
"[5] At NPR Linda Holmes praised Kerr as "at her most irresistible when she's handling the kinds of awkward questions that do traditionally go unanswered in your women's magazines and your perky home-maintenance shows.
"[6] The Huffington Post told readers: "This is going to sound like an oxymoron, but there is a genuinely amusing cleaning book out there.
"[7] Kerr now hosts a podcast for Heritage Radio Network, also called Ask A Clean Person.