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Title: She's Gone Country: Dispatches from a Lost Soul in the Heart of Dixie by Kyle Spencer ISBN: 0-375-70904-5 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 14 May, 2002 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $13.00

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Average Customer Rating: 3.25 (12 reviews)

Rating: 5
Summary: Look out Ya-Ya Sisterhood!
Comment: Few books make you laugh out loud as well as sob. This book does it! I liked it much better than "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood." A story about a twenty something New Yorker struggling in the south to make it both personally and professionally is a page turner. And it is true! This is not fiction, but a memoir. Although some men might think this was a "chick book," my husband read it on my recommendation and enjoyed it enormously. There is a scene in an airplane that was so funny that I will never forget it. Parts about the author's father were incredibly touching. The book is well written and, like all of the best books, leaves you wanting more. I can't wait for Kyle Spencer's next book!

Rating: 1
Summary: Kyle is Vile
Comment: The premise of this book is ridiculous -- since when is Raleigh, North Carolina, the "heart of Dixie"? But even more ridiculous: the notion of a memoir in which the author "made stuff up." Why did she have to do that? Because the truth wasn't interesting enough? In truth, even this exaggerated memoir isn't interesting enough, in large part because Kyle Spencer is too young to be writing a memoir and because she takes herself way too seriously and thinks way too highly of herself. Her delusions of grandeur are embarrassing to read. ("I pictured myself leaping onto some carpeted auditorium stage, preparing to accept the third consecutive Pulitzer of my young career.") And her writing is just plain bad. ("I thanked Susan B. Anthony for getting the women's lib ball rolling.") Her attempts at self-depracation ring false. Get over yourself, Kyle!

Rating: 2
Summary: What's the point
Comment: I was interested in reading what a Northerner had to say about Raleigh. I wasn't too offended by her representations of Raleigh, but was very offended by her needless and painful descriptions of her family and of her own behavior. I don't think I'd want to speak to her if I were one of the family members she chose to excoriate.

In the end, though slightly amused occasionally, I couldn't figure out what her point was in writing this book. Also, I was very interested to read in another review of this book that she graduated from the journalism school at Chapel Hill. Not exactly culture shock to move to Raleigh.