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    Confessions of a Recovering Slut: And Other Love Stories
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    Confessions of a Recovering Slut: And Other Love Stories

    By Hollis Gillespie

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    About this ebook

    Confessions of a Recovering Slut is the hilarious and often heartrending sequel to Bleachy-Haired Honky Bitch, which concludes with Hollis Gillespie, the daughter of a missile scientist and an alcoholic traveling trailer salesman, at last finding a home of her own. Unfortunately that home just happens to be in one of Atlanta's most dangerous crack neighborhoods—but the place is bound to improve, right?

    Wrong. Gillespie is plagued by missing human torsos, murdered policemen, and a drug dealer who keeps setting fire to her neighbor's house—and all this after Hollis discovers that she is inexplicably (except, maybe, for all that acrobatic sex) pregnant. While the neighborhood might have been fine when she was a child-free urban pioneer, it's a nightmare for a mother with nothing but cake pans to bulletproof the baby's room. Gillespie must depend on her three best friends, Daniel, Grant, and Lary, to help her—although Lary makes it no secret that he hopes the paint fumes she inhaled early in her pregnancy will cause the baby to be born inside out—"that way it'll be easier to sell for parts."

    "Will Gillespie ever feel safe? No matter, she's still Hollis at heart—and, as Lary points out, if not safe, at least "safe from ever being normal."  

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHarperCollins
    Release dateMar 25, 2014
    ISBN9780062354013
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    Confessions of a Recovering Slut: And Other Love Stories
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    Hollis Gillespie

    Hollis Gillespie is a humor columnist, writer and comedian based in Atlanta, Georgia. She wrote for Atlanta's Creative Loafing weekly for eight years until October 2008.

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    • 3/5
      This was okay, the stories were a little disjointed and it didn't necessarily flow for me. There were a lot of characters introduced and I would have liked to have more details on some of the more prominent characters. I haven't heard her on NPR, I'll have to pay a little more attention to see if I can find her there.
    • 3/5
      Hollis Gillespie is a hoot. Local column writer for Atlanta's Creative Loafing newspaper, she first got my attention when 3 diferent people told me she writes the way I talk. Perhaps she does, since I find her endlessly hilarious and emphatically support her points. She shoots from the hip uncensored tales of her rollercoaster life and the odd assortment of off beat characters that drift in and out of it. And as a fellow recovering slut- I applaud her. Yea Hollis.