Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: Essays
Helen Ellis
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Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: Essays
Helen Ellis
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
Rave
Positive
Mixed
Pan
... sharply funny essays.
Imagine your funniest friend—the one who can take make you laugh with little more than a sideways glance. The one who can make light of even the direst of situations. Now imagine that friend sitting you down and regaling you with 12 of her trademark wonderful stories. That’s pretty much what it’s like to read Bring Your Baggage and Don’t Pack Light.
Ellis is a humorist, a writer with a sharp eye for finding the funny in any situation.
Whether she’s skewering the indignities of menopause or grappling with the allure of Botox, Ellis tackles these annoyances as she does whatever else life tosses her way, with a simmering sense of 'what the heck?' tempered by a bubbly dose of 'why the heck not?'.
Whether she’s playing poker or second fiddle, Ellis proves again she is in it to win it, with this essay collection.
The author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code cuts loose with uproarious observations on friendship, middle age, and her own life.
Ellis shines in this collection of essays that lovingly underscores the importance of having a circle of close friends.