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Journal Entry 1 by Antheras from Waterloo, Ontario Canada on Wednesday, January 30, 2008
 Book Description:
Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante.She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind. When life's complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia"- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best.Girls in Trucks introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.
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Journal Entry 4 by chronicbooker3 from Oakville, Ontario Canada on Thursday, May 29, 2008
I have mixed emotions about this book. Definately not a happy story but at the same time it had me chuckling out loud at times. I did struggle with the author's use of different tenses throughout the story, but this is just a personal opinion.
The reader finds the main Protagonist "Sarah Walters" fumbling through life with little direction or conviction other then to find love. A transplanted southern girl in New York City she stuggles with her debutante upbringing and the lonliness she constantly feels. Surrounded by a mixed bag of friends (most with their own issues) Sarah jumps from one relationship to another until in the end the reader is left wondering if she has found her answers in herself or yet another man.
I would read this author again. She added enough sarcasm and humour to the story so as not to make the reader want to slash their own wrist.
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Girls in Trucks: A Novel (ARE)
