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The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an “inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women.

Ellis'' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the Botox.” —NPR

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. It''s a diagnosis that scares them, but could never break their bond. Because women pushing fifty won''t be pushed around.

In these twelve gloriously comic and moving essays, Helen Ellis dishes on married middle-age sex, sobs with

Bring Your Baggage and Dont Pack Light Essays

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      Publisher Penguin Random House Group
      Imprint Random House USA Inc
      Published 1/13/2021
      ISBN-13 9780385546157
      978-0385546157
      ISBN-10 385546157
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      Description

      Book Synopsis
      The bestselling author of American Housewife and Southern Lady Code returns with an “inspiring, hilarious, straight-to-the-point” (Entertainment Weekly) collection of essays on friendship among grown-ass women.

      Ellis'' prose is filled with so many laugh lines, you might want to go ahead and book the Botox.” —NPR

      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. It''s a diagnosis that scares them, but could never break their bond. Because women pushing fifty won''t be pushed around.

      In these twelve gloriously comic and moving essays, Helen Ellis dishes on married middle-age sex, sobs with

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