Bibliograph

Bring your baggage and don't pack light, essays, Helen Ellis

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Label

Bring your baggage and don't pack light, essays, Helen Ellis

Language

eng

resource.biographical

contains biographical information

Index

no index present

Literary Form

essays

Main title

Bring your baggage and don't pack light

Oclc number

1259545476

Responsibility statement

Helen Ellis

Sub title

essays

Summary

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. In these twelve 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."

Table Of Contents

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 backup 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

Target audience

adult

resource.variantTitle

Bring your baggage and do not pack light

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