{"id":45417,"date":"2019-06-25T11:12:36","date_gmt":"2019-06-25T15:12:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/?p=45417"},"modified":"2019-06-20T20:53:08","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T00:53:08","slug":"southern-lady-code-by-helen-ellis-in-booklist","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/apa.si.edu\/bookdragon\/southern-lady-code-by-helen-ellis-in-booklist\/","title":{"rendered":"Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis [in Booklist]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"*STARRED REVIEW<\/strong>
\nWhen the material is already so funny, adding another layer of guffaw-inducements hardly seems possible, until you\u2019ve heard Helen Ellis<\/a> narrate her own 23-essay collection.\u00a0Alabama-born-and-raised, Manhattan-domiciled for decades, Ellis is not wrong when she insists, \u201cSouthern accents are disarming.\u201d<\/p>\n

Here, as in the teaser-podcast\u00a0that debuted last fall, her sweet, melodic drawl is just as marvelous with the mundane (explaining the zen of writing thank you notes) as the profane (the dulcet tones of \u201cYIPPEE-KI-YAY, MOTHERFUCKER!\u201d). Her \u2018southern lady code\u2019 (refer to the cover for her punchy definition) never wavers, as she talks marriage, shopping, cheese logs, Southern Effeminates, Campbell\u2019s Cream of Mushroom soup, airline toilets, threesomes, pot parties … pretty much anything is fair game. Perhaps just a smidge more delightful than Ellis is her accounting of her mother\u2019s sagacious advice for facing everything in life \u2013 mugging, kidnapping, included \u2013 with the powerful magic of \u201cNo, thank you.\u201d<\/p>\n

In between the hilarity, Ellis lets drop a few gravely serious moments, from being raped to sitting through a gruesome murder trial to support a close friend. If her new title has any drawbacks, that would have to be its length \u2013 at just over three hours, listeners will be left wishing for\u00a0more.<\/p>\n

Review<\/strong>: “Media,” Booklist<\/em>, June 1, 2019<\/a><\/p>\n

Readers<\/strong>: Adult<\/p>\n

Published<\/strong>: 2019<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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