Rules for the Southern Rulebreaker

Southern women are inundated with rules starting early--from always <br>wearing sensible shoes to never talking about death to the dying and <br>certainly not relying on song lyrics for marriage therapy. <p/><br> <p/> <p/><br>Nevertheless Katherine Snow Smith keeps doing things like falling off <br>her high heels onto President Barack Obama gaining dubious status as <br>the middle school lice mom and finding confirmation in the lyrics of <br>Miranda Lambert after her twenty-four-year marriage ends. Somehow <br>despite never meaning to defy Southern expectations for parenting <br>marriage work and friendship Smith has found herself doing just that <br>for over four decades. Luckily for everyone the outcome of these <br>broken rules is this collection of refreshing stories filled with <br>vulnerability humor and insight sharing how she received lifelong <br>advice from a sixth-grade correspondence with an Oscar-winning actress <br>convinced a terminally ill friend to write good-bye letters and won the<br> mother of all don't give up lectures by finishing a road race last <br>(as the pizza boxes were thrown away). <p/><br> <p/> <p/><br><i>Rules for the Southern Rule Breaker</i> will resonate with every <br>woman southern or not who has a tendency to wander down the hazy side <br>roads and realizes the rewards that come from listening to the pull in <br>one's heart over the voice in one's head.