Southern Lady Code: Essays

I loved it.

--Ann Patchett The bestselling author of American Housewife (Dark, deadpan and truly inventive.

--The New York Times Book Review) is back with a fiercely funny collection of essays on marriage and manners, thank-you notes and three-ways, ghosts, gunshots, gynecology, and the Calgon-scented, onion-dipped, monogrammed art of living as a Southern Lady.

Helen Ellis has a mantra: If you don't have something nice to say, say something not-so-nice in a nice way.

Say weathered instead of she looks like a cake left out in the rain.