Mama Makes Up Her Mind

Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living
Author Bailey White
Published 1994
ISBN 978-0-201-63295-8

Mama Makes Up Her Mind: And Other Dangers of Southern Living is a 1994 autobiography by Bailey White. The book is a collection of humorous anecdotes about White's experiences as a first-grade teacher living with her mother in rural Georgia. White originally presented these anecdotes as a series of fifty short pieces for National Public Radio, reading them herself. The book was also serialised in the Boston Globe and the Miami Herald.[1]

Critical reception

Publishers Weekly said readers and radio listeners would enjoy Mama Makes Up Her Mind[1] while Smithsonian said White's book would create her footing alongside other authors of Southern United States.[2]

References

  1. 1 2 Stuttaford, Genevieve; Steinberg, Sybil (1 March 1993). "Forecasts: Nonfiction". Publishers Weekly. Vol. 240 no. 9. p. 50. Retrieved 25 December 2017.
  2. ↑ Trachtman, Paul (September 1993). "Book reviews". Smithsonian. Vol. 24 no. 6. p. 145-47.


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