Trailer Trashed: My Dubious Efforts Toward Upward Mobility

Once upon a time, Hollis Gillespie was ashamed about having a hard-drinking, trailer-salesman dad and a missile-making mom with broken dreams of being a beautician. That was then. This is now. Trailer Trashed is a hilarious and heartbreaking collection of essays on one broad theme—Hollis’s relationships with her offbeat sisters, her precocious daughter, her bizarre friends, and the people they love. Brimming with irreverent, side-splitting observations on life that will wow fans of Augusten Burroughs and Sarah Vowell, Trailer Trashed follows an offbeat single mom through the raucous journey of her life, from hauling a safe to Nicaragua for her sister to selling a television series in Los Angeles for herself.

Pub. Date:    08/01/2008
Edition:    First
Binding:    Hardcover
Page Count:    272
Trim Size:    6 x 9
ISBN:     1-59921-385-0
Publisher:    skirt!