We're Just Like You, Only Prettier: Confessions of a Tarnished Southern Belle - Paperback

by Celia Rivenbark (Author), Rivenbark (Author)

Why couldn't the Sopranos survive living down South? Simple. You can't shoot a guy full of holes after eating chicken and pastry, spoon bread, okra, and tomatoes.

What does a Southern woman consider grounds for divorce? When daddy takes the kids out in public dressed in their pajama tops and Tweety Bird swim socks. Again.

What is the Southern woman's opinion of a new fat virus theory? Bring it on! We've got a lot of skinny friends we need to sneeze on.

In this wickedly funny follow-up to her bestselling novel Bless Your Heart, Tramp, Celia Rivenbark welcomes you, once again, to the South she loves, the land of Mama and them, precious and dahlin', and mommies who mow. Y'all come back now, you hear?

Back Jacket

I thought I was Southern until I read Celia Rivenbark's book...what a funny, smart, and irreverent writer she is!
- Lee Smith, author of The Last Girls

Laugh-out-loud funny.
- Cleveland Plain Dealer

Even die-hard Yankees will appreciate this wickedly funny collection...an amusing and refreshingly honest look at family life on this side of the Mason-Dixon line.
- Dallas Morning News

Author Biography

Celia Rivenbark is the author of the award-winning bestsellers Stop Dressing Your Six-Year-Old Like a Skank; Bless Your Heart, Tramp; Belle Weather; and You Can't Drink All Day If You Don't Start in the Morning. We're Just Like You, Only Prettier won a Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance (SIBA) Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for the James Thurber Prize for American Humor. Born and raised in Duplin County, North Carolina, Rivenbark grew up in a small house with a red barn out back that was populated by a couple of dozen lanky and unvaccinated cats. She started out writing for her hometown paper. She writes a weekly, nationally syndicated humor column for the Myrtle Beach Sun News. She lives in Wilmington, North Carolina.