Being Dead Is No Excuse: The Official Southern Ladies Guide To Hosting the Perfect Funeral
by Gayden Metcalfe
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Author: Gayden MetcalfeEdition: Hardcover
Published: 2005-03-16
ISBN: 1401359345
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Miramax
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Book Review: Nostalgia for plantation life?!!!
Summary: 1 Stars
Apparently I am the only reader who found parts of this book DEEPLY offensive. The author practically swoons over those fabulously fortunate [white] folks who owned plantations. I think we all know who provided the labor force on said plantations. Thus nostalgia for slavery is pretty much undisguised. I quit reading and returned the book to the library at this point. I'm white, but I hate to think what an African-American would experience reading portions of this "humor" book. I'd give it zero stars or, if it were possible, negative stars.
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