Confessions Of A Recovering Slut: And Other Love Stories

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The next "screamingly hilarious"(Miami Herald) installment in the wild ride that is the life of Hollis Gillespie.

Confessions of a Recovering Slut is the hilarious and often heartrending sequel to BleachyHaired Honky Bitch, which concludes with Hollis Gillespie, the daughter of a missile scientist and an alcoholic traveling trailer salesman, at last finding a home of her own. Unfortunately that home just happens to be in one of Atlanta's most dangerous crack neighborhoodsbut the place is bound to improve, right

Wrong. In Confessions, Gillespie is plagued by missing human torsos, murdered policeman, and a drug dealer who keeps setting fire to her neighbor's houseand all this after Hollis discovers that she is inexplicably (except, maybe, for all that acrobatic sex) pregnant. While the neighborhood might have been fine when she was a childfree urban pioneer, it's a nightmare for a mother with nothing but cake pans to bulletproof the baby's room. Gillespie must depend on her three best friends, Daniel, Grant, and Lary, to help heralthough Lary makes it no secret that he hopes the paint fumes she inhaled early in her pregnancy will cause the baby to be born inside out"that way it'll be easier to sell for parts."

Will Gillespie ever feel safe No matter, she's still Hollis at heartand, as Lary points out, if not safe, at least "safe from ever being normal."

Reviews

"Gillespie masterfully mines her eccentric childhood, work travails, and misadventure for laugh-out-loud humor and eye-moistening pathos." -- Bust

Praise for Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch: "Irreverent and earthy." -- Booklist

"Riotous . . . rib-crackingly funny." -- Vanity Fair

"Raucous." -- Entertainment Weekly

"Gillespie's irreverent wit and hilarious observations are reverberating far beyond the trailer park." -- Writer's Digest

Author Bio

Hollis Gillespie, a Writer's Digest Breakout Author of the Year, is a regular commentator on NPR's All Things Considered, the award-winning writer of "Mood Swing," a humor column published in Creative Loafing, Atlanta's major alternative weekly, and author of "The Ugly American," a travel column for Paste magazine. Also the author of Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch, which Vanity Fair called "rib-crackingly funny," she lives in Atlanta, Georgia, with two cats, an incontinent pit bull, and her six-year-old daughter.