A Red State of Mind: How a Catfish Queen Reject Became a Liberty Belle by Nancy French
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A Red State of Mind: How a Catfish Queen Reject Became a Liberty Belle by Nancy French
(From the Publisher) -- The heartland's answer to Sarah Vowell and David Rakoff, Nancy French tells it like it is--one laugh-out-loud anecdote after another about a red state American's experiences living in the blue states.
For the first 20 years of her life, all Nancy French knew of the world was Paris--Paris, Tennessee, that is. When the former homecoming queen trades in cow-tipping, big hair, and the Catfish Capital of the World for a new life in the Big Apple, she is in for a real education. With a keen sense of humor, French discusses everything from the South's obsession with church attendance to the blue-state notion that red staters think as slowly as they speak.
Things get lost in translation when she enrolls in her first women's studies/philosophy class at New York University ("Women's Studies is the study of why men deserve to be eliminated from the planet just as soon as babies can be grown in Petri dishes and pickle jars come with easy-open lids"), gives birth in an Ithaca hospital that bans epidurals and pacifiers, faces down recycling police, and almost gets arrested for leaving a stroller at the Liberty Bell.
It's a far cry from life in the red states-especially when Nancy reveals her conservative politics and takes a beating from the MOB (Mothers Opposing Bush). Undaunted by her misadventures, she bravely acts as a red-state ambassador, dismantling stereotypes (no, red-staters do not think as slowly as they speak) and affectionately describing the nuances of the evangelical subculture.
Whether or not you share her passion for chain restaurants, Wal-Mart, and the GOP, you will fall in love with Nancy's all-American brand of spirited humor and find yourself in A RED STATE OF MIND.
Also see:
Nancy French's Web Site
The Writer's Life
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A Red State of Mind: How a Catfish Queen Reject Became a Liberty Belle by Nancy French(From the Publisher) -- The heartland's answer to Sarah Vowell and David Rakoff, Nancy French tells it like it is--one laugh-out-loud anecdote after another about a red state American's experiences living in the blue states.
For the first 20 years of her life, all Nancy French knew of the world was Paris--Paris, Tennessee, that is. When the former homecoming queen trades in cow-tipping, big hair, and the Catfish Capital of the World for a new life in the Big Apple, she is in for a real education. With a keen sense of humor, French discusses everything from the South's obsession with church attendance to the blue-state notion that red staters think as slowly as they speak.
Things get lost in translation when she enrolls in her first women's studies/philosophy class at New York University ("Women's Studies is the study of why men deserve to be eliminated from the planet just as soon as babies can be grown in Petri dishes and pickle jars come with easy-open lids"), gives birth in an Ithaca hospital that bans epidurals and pacifiers, faces down recycling police, and almost gets arrested for leaving a stroller at the Liberty Bell.
It's a far cry from life in the red states-especially when Nancy reveals her conservative politics and takes a beating from the MOB (Mothers Opposing Bush). Undaunted by her misadventures, she bravely acts as a red-state ambassador, dismantling stereotypes (no, red-staters do not think as slowly as they speak) and affectionately describing the nuances of the evangelical subculture.
Whether or not you share her passion for chain restaurants, Wal-Mart, and the GOP, you will fall in love with Nancy's all-American brand of spirited humor and find yourself in A RED STATE OF MIND.
Also see:
Nancy French's Web Site
The Writer's Life
Buy now from Amazon.com:
A Red State of Mind: How a Catfish Queen Reject Became a Liberty Belle
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Global Tags: Washington DC, News and Politics, News, Politics, Current Events, Current Affairs, Life, Culture, Buzz, Tension
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