This is a pretty weak sauce essay collection that touches on earnest insight, but always pulls back to a central, and boring conceit. It’s hard to tell who the audience is for this book. Helen Ellis, author of the short collection American Housewife, repeatedly discusses her identity of Southern Lady, though this belies her status as rich white woman in New York, even if she does admit to it. Southern Ladiness is laden with off-hand charm of course. Imagine a whole book whose central thesis is […]
Worst seat ever.
Southern Lady Code by Helen Ellis