Trailer Trashed · My Dubious Efforts Toward Upward Mobility
- Authors
- Gillespie, Hollis
- Publisher
- skirt!
- Tags
- journalists , professionals & academics , humour , humor , satire , humor & entertainment , biographies & memoirs , essays
- ISBN
- 9781599213859
- Date
- 2008-07-24T00:00:00+00:00
- Size
- 1.08 MB
- Lang
- en
Hollis Gillespie used to be embarrassed about having an alcoholic, trailer-salesman dad and a bomb-making mom with broken dreams of being a beautician. If anyone asked about her family, she would tell them her parents were wealthy and that she came from a refined background. She never mentioned the time they lived in a mobile home two miles north of the Tijuana border.
"Trailer Trashed" is a collection of interconnected essays, ranging from hilarious to heart-breaking, all on one broad theme—Hollis Gillespie's relationships with her equally offbeat sisters, her precocious daughter, her bizarre friends, and the people they love. Think David Sedaris meets "Thelma & Louise."
"If David Sedaris had a vagina and wasn't such a pussy, he'd write like Hollis Gillespie." --*Bust* magazine