Southern Fried Divorce edition by Judy Conner Humor Entertainment eBooks
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Set against the colorful backdrop of New Orleans, SOUTHERN FRIED DIVORCE raucously recounts the author's divorce from “That X”—a classic bad boy—and the unpredictable roles he plays in her life afterward. The book opens with his showing up on her doorstep, in mid-Spring, covered in red and green ribbon, smelling of Jim Beam, and bearing a belated Christmas gift—a home security package in the form of a .38 revolver and a brown puppy. After wondering what kind of ex-husband gives his wife a gun, she gives the puppy back and the adventures with that ex-husband and the brown dog, who are soon inseparable, begin.
The hilarious vignettes that ensue include the rules to Redneck Roulette; post-divorce sex (“Smurfing”); a divorce settlement that includes a bar tab for life; how to teach a dog to drive a Cadillac; getting mugged with her own cutlery; wearing a keg into a football game; instructions on how to cook the best Christmas roast south of the Mason-Dixon line and other fine Southern recipes; and the antics of her infamous ex and the brown dog—two cohorts mythic and so inseparable they performed naked synchronized swimming together at the 1984 World's Fair. Conner weaves together a one-of-a-kind love story that exposes the humility of all human relationships, and shows that the end of marriage is not the end of love.
Southern Fried Divorce edition by Judy Conner Humor Entertainment eBooks
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Southern Fried Divorce edition by Judy Conner Humor Entertainment eBooks Reviews
I laughed and passed another copy to another divorcee. She didn't think it was as funny as I did, but Conner makes some points and some poignant statements about tough subjects.
I really thought I would love this since it is written by the sister of the HEAD SWEET POTATO QUEEN, Jill Connor Browne. I was not disappointed. Loved all the stories, especially the ones that included "that brown dog". If you love the SPQs, you will love this, too !!
Like Rita Mae Brown with her cats, Judy Conner depends on her brown dog, as an accomplice, calling her stories 'Brown Dog Tales' which later became SOUTHERN FRIED DIVORCE. In a way it's "a shaggy-dog story." The dog had been a brown fuzzy puppy, a gift from her ex-husband. He would not get on with his life.
Taking place in New Orleans with the quaint streetcars, lots of liquor flowing around, and all of those wild rebels out pulling up their girlfriends' tops for single men to admire what they don't have for themselves. This is real redneck stuff as opposed to Jim Dykes who wrote a column in 'The Journal' here in the '80s and tried to appear "red neck" (wrote WITHOUT A PADDLE about his exploits of being left behind when the paper was sold).
She's a Southern belle from Jackson, Mississippi, and sister of Jill C. Browne who wrote some books about the 'Sweet Potato Queen', and traipsing around after an ex-husband, like Diana from Hiwaii for some odd reason. The ex-, crazy as a loon, performed synchronized swimming (naked, drunk on Jim Beam) with the dog in a fountain at the 1984 World's Fair.
She teaches that dog to drive a Caddy (can you believe that?); her 'red neck' imitation was as far-fetched as Mr. Dykes wo, according to another Knox male who appreciated his work, was educated and, thus, no red-neck, either.
According to the book jacket, she "shows that the end of marriage is not the end of love." Love and sex are not the same thing! That's a funny kind of marriage and a weird divorce. The end of love happens 'before' the divorce! Else, there would not have been one; and she looks a bit old to be a bride or newly-wed. I know an 85-yr-old pretty woman who doesn't look more than 65 (lives in the apartment house where I do) who is happily married, a fairly recent newly-wed.
Divorce is better anyway, as you have freedom at last, to do what you want, buy clothes you want in something besides pink (I chose blue). Drinking, I've never been accussed of doing, so I don't understand why it is is important. To dull one's sense, I suppose. Once I was called a 'solitary drinker' I'd been offered a drink by E.R. who was drinking scotch straight (no water, no ice) but I declined, saying "I don't drink." Later, on the phone, he asked "What do you drink at home?" Since on occasion I get kidney infections, I sometimes try a diet of cranberry juice; I mentioned that and he said, "Oh, you are a solitary drinker -- I know all about solitary drinking."
When, a few years later, I asked J.N. to show me how to drink (to relax) and he didn't even offer me a glass of water, he refused. "A tea-totaler is a tea-totaler for life," he stated. Who knows, I may yet take my first alcoholic drink!
I don't find 'The Big Easy (I thought that was Broadway in New York) such an interesting place. It might be fun at Mardi Gras, watching all the out-of-town revelers. On my honeymoon, I watched a group of people getting raucous and drunk at the Cincinnatti Reds game instead of the actual game on the field. In college, I went to basketball games to watch the people in the audience. I am a people watcher out in public. At home, I have my cat, Star, for company and this trusty computer.
Coming home on the KAT bus, Allan the Alien told the few of us in attendance that "no one would steal his bus pass with his photo ID card which he'd left at the library." No amount of convincing by any of us, he knew what was going on; he is able to see into the future. He wasn't old enough to know the word 'back stabber,' as it had never happened to him. He was totally 'in control,' he said, as he donned his back pack to exit the bus. He was sure that whoever 'found' his necessary transport materials would give it to him. I thought at first he must be a UT student who's just moved to the big town. Now, I think back, he was one of the mental homeless people who roam our streets. We all decided he didn't know any street 'smarts'; I considered him an alien, like Diane, from outer space.
He needs a good trip to New Orleans to become educated on the ways of the world. All kinds of folks congregate there as they used to flock to San Francisco. This is her debut, called 'a true story,' supposed to be funny -- but only to the type who'd do what she says she experienced with a strange ex-husband and a brown dog. Why brown?
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I read this book before I read the Sweet Potato Queen's first book by her sister. Enjoyed both, but Judy's book has it hands down in my estimation. I had to put this line in here because of some of the other reviews I have read. Also, these two gals are so close it is probably hard to tell where the real derivation of the material comes from. At any rate, regarding Southern Fried Divorce, I have read it 3 or 4 times already. There is so much humor here but also so much bittersweet truth. I laughed out loud (snorting was happening here) but I also shed a few real tears as well. This was one of my favorite books in a long time. It is such a quick read, but try to read it slowly. You don't want to miss a word.
HONK if your ex-husband is as bad as mine--but you've managed to keep your sense of humor about him! Love this book--clearly, that ex was a hound but rather than retreating in bitterness, Conner embraces his badness--from a safe distance--and finds the humor that is the saving grace for all of us of the human persuasion. And, good eats never hurts any either!
Listened to audio book and laughed so much my sides hurt. Being from Jackson and NOLA I get it and really do appreciate her observations. Must read or do yourself a favor and listen.
This is a good accounting of the Southern civility and humor we can all achieve. Thank you, Judy Conner! I look forward to the next book.
Read it in one sitting....hilarious sister of the Sweet Potato Queen series.
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