Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis

Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis

I loved it. --Ann Patchett

The bestselling author of American Housewife (Dark, deadpan and truly inventive. --The New York Times Book Review) is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady.

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. Say early-developed instead of brace face and B cups. And for the love of Coke Salad, always say Sorry you saw something that offended you instead of Get that stick out of your butt, Miss Prissy Pants. In these twenty-three raucous essays Ellis transforms herself into a dominatrix Donna Reed to save her marriage, inadvertently steals a $795 Burberry trench coat, witnesses a man fake his own death at a party, avoids a neck lift, and finds a black-tie gown that gives her the confidence of a drag queen. While she may have left her home in Alabama, married a New Yorker, forgotten how to drive, and abandoned the puffy headbands of her youth, 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.

HELEN ELLIS is the acclaimed author of Eating the Cheshire Cat and Southern Lady Code. She is a poker player who competes on the national tournament circuit. Raised in Alabama, she lives with her husband in New York City.

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ISBN 13	9780525562924
ISBN 10	0525562923
Title	Southern Lady Code
Author	Helen Ellis
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Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Random House USA Inc
Year published	2020-04-28
Number of pages	224
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