Like fine chocolates, these sequential stories about a girl named Roxanne growing up in Annette, Texas, have a smooth, sweet exterior that conceals a surprise inside. In the first vignette, set in 1961, tomboy Roxanne sees her parents in a new light during a town pie-baking competition when her mother gives credit to a black woman in a pie-baking contest rather than to the white woman who employed her. By turns humorous and touching, Stolz portrays Roxanne in her travels from girlhood to motherhood, introducing, along the way, Roxanne's dad, proprietor of Carl's Corsets; her cousin, Tommy, through whom readers experience the vicissitudes of the Vietnam War and its aftermath; and an assortment of other relatives, friends, and lovers.

Released on Wednesday, January 29, 2003 at sent to fellow bookcrosser in Marietta, Georgia USA.

Being mailed to Kayters to read and release!

Hmm... the blue typeface was quite interesting. I really enjoyed this book. It reminded me a bit of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood, but not as depressing. I guess it was the southernness of the novel. And I'm always a sucker for a good southern novel!

This is a PIF/RABCK going out to Daidy.

Release planned for Thursday, June 19, 2003 at Mailing to another bookcrosser in Sturgis, Michigan USA.

Just recieved this yesterday. Hopefully I'll get a lot of reading done during my (woohoo!) vacation. I'll journal again once I've finished it. Thanks.

An enjoyable read that doesn't require you to think too much if you don't want to. If this really is similar to Ya-Ya, I think I'll enjoy that book as well. I picked Ya-Ya Sisterhood out of a bookbox a while back but I haven't gotten around to reading it yet.

As part of the PIF/RABCK chain:
1) Slammerkin to busybusybee
2) American Gods to oh-jeez-tower

Released on Friday, July 25, 2003 at Kettering University in Flint, Michigan USA.

Somewhere in the CC.

Left it in one of the elevators. In the bank of 4, it's in the second from the left.