Fanny Says

A raucous, bawdy, and hilarious investigation of the South through the unforgettable voice of Fanny, Nickole Brown’s fierce, tough-as-new-rope grandmother.

Table of Contents

For Our Grandmothers

I

Fuck
Your Monthly
Fanny Says She and Her Husband Had Their First Fight
Fanny Linguistics: Malapropisms
Fanny Says She Spent It
Pepsi
Fanny Says Sometimes It's Worth the Whupping
Go Put on Your Face
For My Grandmother's Teeth, Pulled When She Was Thirty-Six
Fanny Says She Got Saved
Fanny Linguistics: Nickole
Fanny Says How to Make Potato Salad
Fanny Linguistics: Superstition
The Dead
Fanny Linguistics: Birdsong
Fanny Says She Learned to Throw the First Stone
Hettie
Fanny Says How to Be a Lady

II

Clorox
Fanny Says She Didn t Use to Be Afraid
Fanny Linguistics: Publix Hieroglyphics
Fanny Linguistics: Origins
Crisco
For My Grandmother's Feet, Swollen Again
Fanny Says How to Tend Babies
Fanny Says She Wanted To See Elvis
EPO
Fanny Says at Twenty-three She Learned to Drive
Dixie Highway
Fanny Linguistics: How to Say What You Mean
Pheno
Fanny Says She Made Him Feel Better
How To Dress Like Fanny
Fanny Says I Need to Keep Warm

III

A Genealogy of The Word

IV

Fanny Says She Knows How Little Time is Left
For My Grandmother's Gallstones, Reconsidered
Sweet Silver
Fanny Says She Meets a Stripper in the ER
Bullshit, Bullshit, Bullshit
Fanny Says Again the Same Dream on Morphine
Flitter
Fanny Asks Me a Question Before I'd Even Ask Myself
My Book, In Birds
A Translation for the Spiritual Mediator Who May Speak for Me to Frances Lee Cox, Wherever She May Be
To My Grandmother's Ghost, Flying with Me on a Plane
Fanny Linguistics: Thaumatology
The Family Says It Celebrates Independence
An Invitation for My Grandmother
A Prayer for the Self-Made Man
For My Grandmother's Perfume, Norell
Fanny Says Goodbye

Afterword