Bring your baggage and don't pack light : essays / Helen Ellis.
"The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny collection of literary essays on love, family, and friendship among grown-ass women"-- Provided by publisher.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780385546157
- ISBN: 0385546157
- ISBN: 9780593081686
- ISBN: 0593081684
- Physical Description: 176 pages ; 21 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : Doubleday, [2021]
Content descriptions
Formatted Contents Note: | Grown-Ass Ladies Gone Mild -- She's a Character -- Happy Birthday, You're Still Fuckable! -- She's Young -- Are You There, Menopause? It's Me, Helen -- Call Me -- The Back-Up Plan -- The Last Garage Sale -- My Kind of People -- I'm a Believer! -- I Go Greyhound! -- There's a Lady at the Poker Table -- I Feel Better About My Neck. |
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Subject: | Ellis, Helen > Family. Ellis, Helen > Friends and associates. Female friendship. Authors, American > 20th century > Biography. Authors, American > 21st century > Biography. |
Genre: | Essays. |
Available copies
- 15 of 15 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
- 1 of 1 copy available at North Kansas City.
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- 0 current holds with 15 total copies.
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Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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North Kansas City Public Library | FICTION ELLIS 2021 (Text) | 0001002458816 | Fiction | Available | - |
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Summary
Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light : Essays
The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with a viciously funny, deeply felt collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women. When Helen Ellis and her lifelong friends arrive for a reunion on the Redneck Riviera, they unpack more than their suitcases- stories of husbands and kids; lost parents and lost jobs; powdered onion dip and photographs you have to hold by the edges; dirty jokes and sunscreen with SPF higher than they hair-sprayed their bangs senior year; and a bad mammogram. It's a diagnosis that scares them, but could never break their bond. Because women pushing fifty won't be pushed around. In these twelve gloriously comic and moving essays, Helen Ellis dishes on married middle-age sex, sobs with a theater full of women as a psychic exorcises their sorrows, gets twenty shots of stomach bile to the neck to get rid of her double chin, 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- cat-lady plastic surgeons and waterpark Adonises; bridge ladies and poker players; platinum medallion fliers and Garage Sale Swindlers; forty-year-old divorcees; fifty-year-old new moms and still-young octogenarians. Alive with the sensational humor and ferocious love for her friends that won Helen Ellis legions of fans, this book has a raw vulnerability and an emotional generosity that takes this acclaimed author to a whole new level of accomplishment.