Trailer Trashed: My Dubious Efforts Toward Upward Mobility

Hollis Gillespie used to be embarrassed about having an alcoholic, trailer- salesman dad and a bomb-making mom with broken dreams of being a beautician.
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Trailer Trashed : My Dubious Efforts Toward Upward Mobility by Hollis Gillespie (2008, Hardcover)

She has two earlier books that I will no doubt read. It was an interesting book that was intermittently pretty hilarious with the odd descent into sentimentality. Aug 13, LizG rated it it was amazing. Funny, poignant, a tinge bittersweet and completely laugh-out-loud delightful. An irreverent and off-beat look at the author's past and present life.

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I always appreciate when people can look at their own and other's foibles we all have them with empathy, forgiveness and love instead of anger and bitterness. A must-read if you want to feel like maybe your life isn't all that bad. Nov 11, Foxthyme rated it really liked it Shelves: I love Hollis, whose books are collections of articles she has written for I can't remember the publication.


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My fave book is still the first I read of hers, White Haired Honky Bitch, but this one still hits those places, laughter, snorts, tears. At totally unsuspecting times, too. So if you're reading on the bus, beware!! Aug 05, Katie rated it liked it. I'm not really sure exactly how to describe it, but the author has this really annoying tendency to wrap up her stories with a sentence that recalls something about the title of the story or echoes some other reference made in the story, and it makes the endings seem really cheap, like she had to tie it with a little bow each time.

A good book over all, but lacking in style. Dec 16, Shelley added it. Love this Atlanta author, and I think this is her best so far. I've devoured her columns in "The Creative Loaf" for years. Her books are along the same vein: She loves; she fears; she moves forward anyhow. I like to watch. Jan 05, Madameugly added it. Just started, looks like it will be fun but nothing exceptional. I stand by the comment I made when I started this book.

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It was fun but it was also fluff. Just an accumulation of Gillespie's newspaper column, which made it kind of redundant. Don't pay for this book, get it from the library. May 09, Melea Rose-Waters rated it did not like it Shelves: I just couldn't get into this book. It's a series of short stories and while that may work for her column, it didn't work for this book.

TRAILER TRASHED: My Dubious Efforts Toward Upward Mobility

I was disappointed because the people are very interesting, and I would like to know more about them, but not in this format. Aug 16, Andi Barney rated it it was amazing. Hollis has done it once again! Her essays are amazing. As in her first two bestsellers, she manages to tie them together. I laughed my ass off through the whole book, and I'm already waiting for a fourth book! Sep 20, Elizabeth Yarnell rated it really liked it.

‘Trailer Trashed' a fun summer read

It's rare that a book makes me giggle out loud, particularly when I'm silently reading next to a toddler that stubbornly resists sleep and pops up at every guffaw. But Hollis has that way about her. Her life is at once absurd and familiar, and her astute observations leave you nodding in agreement. Nov 23, Ellece rated it it was amazing. She is such an honest and refreshing talent. Ive read all of her books and have enjoyed everyone.


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    Kristin Conard , September 27th She says she has lived in conventional homes that were smaller and less convenient than many of the double-wides. The book's collection of essays introduces the reader to Gillespie's siblings, Kim, Cheryl and Jim, and her three best friends, Larry, Daniel and Grant. One captivating essay tells how "Larry is at a loss as to why I'd turn down his offer to burn down my house.

    He thinks it would be the answer to all my problems. Gillespie, who lives in Atlanta, writing out of a trailer in her backyard, has written for television and has been a National Public Radio commentator, a keynote speaker and a writing instructor. Her heroes seem to be low-brow characters, perhaps because they make for more interesting prose than people of higher estate. Another reason these cheesy characters are appealing may be that most of us have both low-brow and high-brow preferences.