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Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker

Missteps and Lessons Learned

by Katherine Snow Smith
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Southern women are inundated with rules starting early—from always wearing sensible shoes to never talking about death to the dying, and certainly not relying on song lyrics for marriage therapy.
Nevertheless, Katherine Snow Smith keeps doing things like falling off her high heels onto President Barack Obama, gaining dubious status as the middle school "lice mom," and finding confirmation in the lyrics of Miranda Lambert after her twenty-four-year marriage ends. Somehow, despite never meaning to defy Southern expectations for parenting, marriage, work, and friendship, Smith has found herself doing just that for over four decades. Luckily for everyone, the outcome of these "broken rules" is this collection of refreshing stories, filled with vulnerability, humor, and insight, sharing how she received lifelong advice from a sixth-grade correspondence with an Oscar-winning actress, convinced a terminally ill friend to write good-bye letters, and won the mother of all "don't give up" lectures by finishing a road race last (as the pizza boxes were thrown away).
Rules for the Southern Rule Breaker will resonate with every woman, southern or not, who has a tendency to wander down the hazy side roads and realizes the rewards that come from listening to the pull in one's heart over the voice in one's head.

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    July 21, 2020

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      • ISBN: 9781631528590

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      • ISBN: 9781631528590
      • File size: 4345 KB

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    • English

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    • Booklist

      June 1, 2020
      Southern women frequently are taught to follow the rules, from proper party etiquette to why sending fan mail is tacky. Smith, a journalist-turned-public relations specialist, regularly finds herself breaking one rule or another and recounts her experiences in this delightful essay collection. She is under no illusion about the mistakes she's made. Life is messy, she acknowledges in the foreword, and sometimes you can't play by the rules. Perhaps she was thinking of the time she met former First Lady Michelle Obama and called her by her first name. She might have been reflecting on the night she arrived in New York with a man she met in the Detroit airport and stayed the night with his family. One essay defends the right to be late to a funeral when it's for your daughter, a poignant tribute to her late sister. Smith writes of going her own way with humor and honesty, encouraging readers not to take themselves too seriously and find value in friends and family. Readers of essays from Sloane Crosley, Samantha Irby, or Bailey White will laugh out loud.(Reprinted with permission of Booklist, copyright 2020, American Library Association.)

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