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Being Dead Is No Excuse audiobook

  • By: Gayden Metcalfe
  • Narrator: Tiffany Morgan
  • Length: 5 hours 23 minutes
  • Publisher: Hachette Audio
  • Publish date: January 21, 2020
  • Language: English
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Being Dead Is No Excuse Audiobook Summary

A hilarious guide to the intricate rituals, customs, and etiquette surrounding death in the South-and a practical collection of recipes for the final send-off.


As author Gayden Metcalfe asserts, people in the Delta have a strong sense of community, and being dead is no impediment to belonging to it. Down south, they don’t forget you when you’ve up and died-they may even like you better and visit you more often! But just as there is an appropriate way to live your life in the South, there is an equally essentially tasteful way of departing it-and the funeral is the final social event of your existence so it must be handled flawlessly. Metcalfe portrays this slice of American culture from the manners, customs, and the tomato aspic with mayonnaise that characterize the Delta way of death.

Southerners love to swap tales, and Gayden Metcalfe, native of Greenville, MS, founder of the Greenville Arts Council and chairman of the St. James Episcopal Church Bazaar, is steeped in the stories and traditions of this rich region. She reminisces about the prominent family that drank too much and got the munchies the night before the big event-and left not a crumb for the funeral (Naturally some early rising, quick-witted ladies from the church saved the day, so the story demonstrates some solutions to potential entertaining disasters!). Then there was the lady who allocated money to have “Home on the Range” sung at the service, and the family that insisted on a portrait of their mother in her casket, only to refuse to pay for it on the grounds that “Mama looks so sad.”

Each chapter ends with an authentic southern recipe that will come in handy if you “plan to die tastefully”, including Boiled Bourbon Custard; Aunt Hebe’s Coconut Cake; Pickled Shrimp; Homemade Mayonnaise; and Homemade Rolls.

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Tiffany Morgan is the narrator of Being Dead Is No Excuse audiobook that was written by Gayden Metcalfe

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Being Dead Is No Excuse Full Details

Narrator Tiffany Morgan
Length 5 hours 23 minutes
Author Gayden Metcalfe
Publisher Hachette Audio
Release date January 21, 2020
ISBN 9781549156533

Subjects

The publisher of the Being Dead Is No Excuse is Hachette Audio. includes the following subjects: The BISAC Subject Code is HUMOR, Topic, Marriage & Family

Additional info

The publisher of the Being Dead Is No Excuse is Hachette Audio. The imprint is Hyperion. It is supplied by Hachette Audio. The ISBN-13 is 9781549156533.

Global Availability

This book is only available in the United States.

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