Helen Ellis

Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light (eBook, ePUB)

Essays

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny, deeply-felt collection of literary essays on love, family, and friendship among grown-ass women. When Helen Ellis and her lady gang arrive for their vacation at the Redneck Riviera they bring a lot with them: stories of five husbands, past and present, seven kids, lost parents, lost jobs, a bad diagnosis, and enough gin and powdered onion dip mix to dehydrate an elephant. Because that's friendship among women old enough to appreciate it: a tapestry woven in the colors of your forties, Clinique moisturizer yellow, Windex blue, and colonoscopy pink. In these twelve gloriously comic and moving essays, Helen Ellis braves a cat lady plastic surgeon for twenty shots of stomach bile in the neck, witnesses the Miracle Whip of life as her 49-year-old second-best friend gives birth, sobs with a stadium full of women as a psychic with a tiara of white blond hair exorcises their sorrows, and gathers up the courage to ask "Are you there, Menopause? It's Me, Helen." A book that reads like the best cocktail party of your life, Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light is chockablock with fabulous characters: Book club ladies who race Roombas, poker players with backpacks of cash, a man who plays the saw, a woman who wears a toilet paper cast on her arm, Southern boy Adonises, garage sale swindlers, and ladies so tipsy they lose their handbags and have to carry their keys in a Piggly Wiggly shopping bag. Alive with the fearless, sensational humor that won Helen Ellis legions of fans, her fierce wit is accompanied in this book by a brave vulnerability, an emotional generosity, and a ferocious love for her friends that takes this acclaimed author to a whole new level of accomplishment.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 13. Juli 2021
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780385546164
• Artikelnr.: 60375093

Autorenporträt

HELEN ELLIS is the author of Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light, Southern Lady Code, American Housewife and Eating the Cheshire Cat. Raised in Alabama, she lives with her husband in New York City. She is a poker player and a plant lady. You can find her on Twitter @WhatIDoAllDay and Instagram @HelenEllisAuthor.