I Totally Meant to Do That
Jane Borden is a hybrid too horrifying to exist: a hipster-debutante. She was reared in a propert Southern home in Greensboro, North Carolina, sent to boarding school in Virginia, and then went on to join a sorority in Chapel Hill. She next moved to New York and discovered that none of this...
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Jane Borden is a hybrid too horrifying to exist: a hipster-debutante. She was reared in a propert Southern home in Greensboro, North Carolina, sent to boarding school in Virginia, and then went on to join a sorority in Chapel Hill. She next moved to New York and discovered that none of this grooming meant a lick to anyone. In fact, she hid her upbringing for many years--it was easier than explaining what a debutante "does" (the short answer: not much).Anyone who has moved away from home or lived in (or dreamed of living in) New York will appreciate the hilarity of Jane's musings on the intersections of and altercations between Southern hospitality and Gotham cool.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780307464637 (0307464636)
Publish date: March 1st 2011
Publisher: Three Rivers Press
Pages no: 240
Edition language: English
Category:
Non Fiction,
Humor,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Funny,
American,
Biography Memoir,
Southern,
New York,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit
(Disclaimer: I lived in New York for the first 17 years of my life and intermittently thereafter, and I've been in NC for the past 19. I believe I'm qualified to review this book.)I so wanted to like this one. The usual story is the New Yawker who moves down South and is amused, frustrated, and/or h...