Hollis Gillespie is een gevierd humoriste wiens schrijven scherpe observatievaardigheid vakkundig combineert met een diepgaand begrip van de menselijke conditie. Ze creëert verhalen die de komische en ontroerende aspecten van het dagelijks leven blootleggen, en het alledaagse buitengewoon maken. Door haar gesyndiceerde columns en radiocommentaren heeft Gillespie een onderscheidende stem ontwikkeld die resoneert bij zowel lezers als luisteraars. Haar werk wordt erkend om zijn originaliteit en aanstekelijke humor.
A young airplane pilot known for her crash-prone adventures becomes stranded on a disabled plane in the vast ocean. As she grapples with her situation, themes of survival and resilience emerge, forcing her to confront her fears and resourcefulness in an isolated environment. The story promises a thrilling exploration of both physical and emotional challenges as she navigates her way through adversity.
The next "screamingly hilarious"(Miami Herald) installment in the wild ride that is the life of Hollis Gillespie. Confessions of a Recovering Slut is the hilarious and often heartrending sequel to Bleachy–Haired Honky Bitch, which concludes with Hollis Gillespie, the daughter of a missile scientist and an alcoholic traveling trailer salesman, at last finding a home of her own. Unfortunately that home just happens to be in one of Atlanta's most dangerous crack neighborhoods–but the place is bound to improve, right? Wrong. In Confessions, Gillespie is plagued by missing human torsos, murdered policeman, and a drug dealer who keeps setting fire to her neighbor's house–and all this after Hollis discovers that she is inexplicably (except, maybe, for all that acrobatic sex) pregnant. While the neighborhood might have been fine when she was a child–free urban pioneer, it's a nightmare for a mother with nothing but cake pans to bulletproof the baby's room. Gillespie must depend on her three best friends, Daniel, Grant, and Lary, to help her–although Lary makes it no secret that he hopes the paint fumes she inhaled early in her pregnancy will cause the baby to be born inside out–"that way it'll be easier to sell for parts." Will Gillespie ever feel safe? No matter, she's still Hollis at heart–and, as Lary points out, if not safe, at least "safe from ever being normal."