Far Outside the Ordinary: A Memoir

by Prissy Elrod

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If anybody had told Prissy, a conservative Southern housewife, she would one day be driving around town with a stoned, drunk black man named Willie in her backseat while she begged—no, ordered—him into her house for the night, she would have told them they were nuts. But it happened.

An emotionally honest account, Far Outside the Ordinary chronicles the period in Prissy's life when, during a routine physical, her fifty-year-old husband is given less than a year to live. Southern black caregivers move into her home and work around the clock to aid her family. Soon, Prissy finds herself a spectator in her own home, observing events far outside the boundaries of her once ordinary life. 

Far Outside the Ordinary is also a story of happily ever after, a romantic fairy tale. When her high school boyfriend reappears in her life, Prissy learns love has no expiration date. Sometimes a second chance at love can come disguised, and when least expected. 

  • ISBN10 082530783X
  • ISBN13 9780825307836
  • Publish Date 20 July 2015
  • Publish Status Inactive
  • Out of Print 27 June 2016
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Beaufort Books
  • Format Paperback
  • Pages 257
  • Language English