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She's Gone Country: Dispatches from a Lost Soul in the Heart of Dixie
Where does a single, twentysomething girl go for adventure when she’s been raised among Manhattan artists, drag queens, and intellectuals threatening to move to Cuba? If that girl is Kyle York Spencer, an aspiring newspaper reporter, she heads south, to North Carolina, to cut her chops at the Raleigh News & Observer .
Setting up shop in the Tar Heel state, Spencer finds herself interviewing everyone from skeet-shooting cowboys and Christian Rockers to the Human Carver--a serial killer--and the Smallest Woman in the World. Embraced by a sassy group of husband-hunting southern belles, she wonders whether sleeping with a Jesse Helms supporter is really part of the grand plan or if Mark, her best friend whose calls from LA provide a lifeline, is really the one. Picking up some valuable wisdom along the way, she learns that finding Mr. Right is far less important than surrounding yourself with the right people–and that making a home ultimately involves more than just deciding where to live.
Setting up shop in the Tar Heel state, Spencer finds herself interviewing everyone from skeet-shooting cowboys and Christian Rockers to the Human Carver--a serial killer--and the Smallest Woman in the World. Embraced by a sassy group of husband-hunting southern belles, she wonders whether sleeping with a Jesse Helms supporter is really part of the grand plan or if Mark, her best friend whose calls from LA provide a lifeline, is really the one. Picking up some valuable wisdom along the way, she learns that finding Mr. Right is far less important than surrounding yourself with the right people–and that making a home ultimately involves more than just deciding where to live.
305 pages, Paperback
First published May 14, 2002
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May 17, 2017
Nope. I'm not going to finish this. I was going to try to make it to at least page 80 but I can't. I quit on about page 70. This is going back to the library. It's too silly. Never want to see it again. It's not worth any more of my time.
October 12, 2009
In this memoir, Kyle Spencer makes a move from her hometown of NYC to Raleigh, NC. I was intrigued, because I made the opposite move from the Deep South (Atlanta in my case) to NYC. Even though this was a memoir, it felt too chick-lit-ish to me. It had a few good moments, but overall, I found it forgettable.
March 15, 2013
Gave it one star 'cause I didn't get past the first few chapters. I didn't like the author very much - very condescending. Maybe the book would've gotten better, but I didn't want to waste the time finding out.
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