{"product_id":"bring-your-baggage-and-dont-pack-light-essays-paperback","title":"Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light: Essays - Paperback","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eHelen Ellis\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe bestselling author of \u003ci\u003eAmerican Housewife\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eSouthern Lady Code\u003c\/i\u003e returns with an \"inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point\" (\u003ci\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/i\u003e) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women.\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cb\u003e\"Ellis' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the Botox.\u003c\/b\u003e\" \u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eNPR\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eWhen 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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 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.\" \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eA book that reads like the best cocktail party of your life, Bring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light is 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.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eHELEN ELLIS is the author of \u003ci\u003eBring Your Baggage and Don't Pack Light\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eSouthern Lady Code, American Housewife\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eEating the Cheshire Cat.\u003c\/i\u003e Raised in Alabama, she lives with her husband in New York City. She is a poker player and a plant lady. You can find her on Twitter @WhatIDoAllDay and Instagram @HelenEllisAuthor.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 192\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.7 x 7.7 x 5.2 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 26, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47226103234809,"sku":"9780593081686","price":16.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0789\/2782\/3097\/files\/UC9JeHQ3NFNFSFZIUTRqclZkSnNtdz09.webp?v=1768256812","url":"https:\/\/bookscloud.io\/products\/bring-your-baggage-and-dont-pack-light-essays-paperback","provider":"BooksCloud Book Dropshipping","version":"1.0","type":"link"}