Mississippi Sissy

Mississippi Sissy is the stunning memoir from Kevin Sessums, a celebrity journalist who grew up scaring other children, hiding terrible secrets, pretending to be Arlene Frances and running wild in the South.

As he grew up in Forest, Mississippi, befriended by the family maid, Mattie May, he became a young man who turned the word sissy on its head, just as his mother taught him. In Jackson, he is befriended by Eudora Welty and journalist Frank Hains, but when Hains is brutally murdered in his antebellum mansion, Kevin’s long road north towards celebrity begins. In his memoir, Kevin Sessums brings to life the pungent American south of the 1960s and the world of the strange little boy who grew there.

Kevin Sessums is some sort of cockeyed national treasure.” –Michael Cunningham

Author: Kevin Sessums
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: St. Martins Press-3PL
Published: 03/04/2008
Pages: 352
Weight: 0.95lbs
Size: 8.40h x 5.50w x 0.90d
ISBN: 9780312341022
Language: English

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