Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: Tales from a Bad Neighborhood

✍ Scribed by Gillespie, Hollis

• Book ID: 107900136
• Publisher: HarperCollins
• Year: 2014
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 5 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 006056198X

✦ Synopsis

Drawing on her peripatetic childhood as the daughter of a travelling salesman, and her adult residence in one of Atlanta's seedier crack neighbourhoods, columnist and NPR commentator Hollis Gillespie has assembled a comic, poignant memoir about her life, starring her unusual family and her crazy friends.

NPR commentator Hollis Gillespie's outrageously funny--and equally heartbreaking--collection of autobiographical tales chronicles her journey through self--reckoning and the worst neighbourhoods in Atlanta in search of a home she can call her own. The daughter of a missile scientist and an alcoholic travelling trailer salesman, Gillespie was nine before she realized not everybody's mother made bombs, and thirty before she realized it was possible to live in one place longer than a six--month lease allows. Supporting her are the social outcasts she calls her best friends: Daniel, a talented and eccentric artist; Grant, who makes his living peddling folk art by a denounced...