Southern Lady Code - Essays
Author(s): Helen Ellis
I loved it. --Ann Patchett
Helen Ellis has a mantra: "If you don't have something nice to say, say something not-so-nice in a nice way." Say "weathered" instead of "she looks like a cake left out in the rain" and "I'm not in charge" instead of "they're doing it wrong." In these twenty-three raucous essays, Ellis transforms herself into a dominatrix Donna Reed to save her marriage, inadvertently steals a Burberry trench coat, avoids a neck lift, and finds a black-tie gown that gives her the confidence of a drag queen. While she may have left Alabama for New York City, Helen Ellis is clinging to her Southern accent like mayonnaise to white bread, and offering readers a hilarious, completely singular view on womanhood for both sides of the Mason-Dixon.
Product Information
General Fields
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- : Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- : Anchor
- : 0.221353
- : 28 April 2020
- : .71 Inches X 5.14 Inches X 7.95 Inches
- : books
Special Fields
- : Helen Ellis
- : Paperback
- : English
- : 224