Fixin' To Be Texan

By Helen Bryant

Book Overview

You don't just move here and immediately become a Texan; it takes training. This delightfully witty book takes you through the process of understanding our conversation, why and how we dress the way we do, why pickups are a fact of life, and how you can acquire the necessary big hair.

Fixin' to Be Texan pokes gentle fun at the Texas mystique. Residents of the state will get a big kick out of Bryant's clever way of identifying our predominant characteristics. Newcomers will use it as a tool for understanding the wonderful and sometimes incomprehensible behavior of our fine native population.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1556226489
• ISBN13: 9781556226489
• Release Date: October 1998
• Publisher: Taylor Trade Publishing
• Length: 236 Pages
• Weight: 0.95 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.4"

Customer Reviews

Wish I'd read this 23 years ago

Helen Bryant has summed up everything you need to make the transition from being "from someplace else" to being a Texan, all in a compact and witty book. I lived in Houston and San Antonio for 17 years and I'm fixin to go back (from California) so I thought I'd better brush up. I feel ready, now. After I finished the book I wrapped it up and gave it to friends, native Southern Californians who are soon to make Fort Worth their home. If you are bound for Texas, read this book first!

I loved this book!!

We are thinking about making a move to Texas from California, and I wanted to learn a little about the culture. This book teaches you everything you will need to know. I couldn't put it down. It was hilarious!

Great book for Texans and those wishing they were Texans!

We gave this book to our friend from Germany to help better understand this "big ol'" state and the language while she was visiting. We found ourselves reading it and agreed with everything we read. Being Native Texans, we found this book the best book about Texas that we have ever read...and I have read a "mess of" books. Plus it has one of the best Texas jokes I've ever seen about why the chicken crossed the road. I recommend this book to anyone wanting to know more about Texas and the people smart enough to live there.. or crazy enough.I'm fixin to buy me my own copy of the book.

Excellent Assement of Texas from a Texan

This book is truly hilarious-being a Texan myself for 6 years i can totally relate to what the aiuthor is saying. the entire book is like one big joke and will keep you laughing the whole way through.

So true, so true!

I chuckled all the way through this book as I was eatin' my chicken-fried steak, swiggin' a beer and swattin' at one of them big, flyin' cockroaches. Helen knows all of us a little too well, and she's the only one I know with bigger hair than I got. If you don't like this book, well...yawn yoan.