num_pages: 280
description: If your dog doesn't like this book, he has no sense of humor."—Roy Blount, Jr., author ofRoy Blount's Book of Southern Humor and If Only You Knew How Much I Smell You  The hilarious account of one woman's marriage and divorce—Big Easy- style 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.
language: English
title: Southern Fried Divorce: A Woman Unleashes Her Hound and His Dog In The Big Easy
titlecomplete: Southern Fried Divorce: A Woman Unleashes Her Hound and His Dog In The Big Easy
genres: Humor, Southern, Autobiography, Chick Lit, Nonfiction, Biography Memoir, Divorce, Memoir, Audiobook
ratings_count: 402
places: Louisiana
publisher: Thorndike Press