Southern Living (Ballantine Reader's Circle)
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Welcome to the utterly eccentric world of Selby, Georgia, where the folks sprinkle three things liberally over their daily lives: sugar, religion, and the wicked fun of Southern living.
Margaret Pinaldi is the quiet daughter of a hell-raising abortion-rights advocate who recently died—bequeathing Margaret a house in Georgia. Finally free from her mother’s demanding presence, this transplanted Yankee is finding herself for the first time, courtesy of the Deep South. And, much to her surprise, she likes it.
A former International Dogwood Festival Queen, Donna Kabel once had cute male suitors chase her like hounds to the fox. But all that changed after a car accident left her with a huge facial scar. Now Donna works in the produce section of Kroger. But it seems that the scar that could have cost Donna her inner strength has actually spurred her to reinvent herself.
Thirty-four-year-old Suzanne Parley, the chardonnay-alcoholic wife of a fifth-generation Selby neurosurgeon named Boone, longs to have the most exquisitely decorated house in the affluent Red Hill Plantation community. Childless and directionless, Suzanne suddenly comes up with a bold plan to make her bored husband love her again: she’ll simply fake a pregnancy.
On the eve of this year’s all-important Dogwood Festival, the disparate lives of these three women will converge in a brilliant comedy of Southern manners like none other. With this funny and poignant novel, Ad Hudler joins Fannie Flagg and Adriana Trigiani as one of our best chroniclers of Southern life.
Margaret Pinaldi is the quiet daughter of a hell-raising abortion-rights advocate who recently died—bequeathing Margaret a house in Georgia. Finally free from her mother’s demanding presence, this transplanted Yankee is finding herself for the first time, courtesy of the Deep South. And, much to her surprise, she likes it.
A former International Dogwood Festival Queen, Donna Kabel once had cute male suitors chase her like hounds to the fox. But all that changed after a car accident left her with a huge facial scar. Now Donna works in the produce section of Kroger. But it seems that the scar that could have cost Donna her inner strength has actually spurred her to reinvent herself.
Thirty-four-year-old Suzanne Parley, the chardonnay-alcoholic wife of a fifth-generation Selby neurosurgeon named Boone, longs to have the most exquisitely decorated house in the affluent Red Hill Plantation community. Childless and directionless, Suzanne suddenly comes up with a bold plan to make her bored husband love her again: she’ll simply fake a pregnancy.
On the eve of this year’s all-important Dogwood Festival, the disparate lives of these three women will converge in a brilliant comedy of Southern manners like none other. With this funny and poignant novel, Ad Hudler joins Fannie Flagg and Adriana Trigiani as one of our best chroniclers of Southern life.
Funny book. Mom and I both enjoyed it.
Adding to my Shrinking Potpouri Fiction Book Box.
Adding to my Shrinking Potpouri Fiction Book Box.
Will let ya'll know what I think as soon as I read it.
It was interesting enough for me to finish it even though it dragged at times. But overall it was a good somewhat amusing book.
I'm setting it free in the Chick-Lit bookbox (which seems to have a bunch of plain old romance books in it :/
I'm setting it free in the Chick-Lit bookbox (which seems to have a bunch of plain old romance books in it :/
Taking this book out of marijketje's Chick-Lit/Romance Bookbox.
Since I was born and raised in the south, this looks like a really good book!
Since I was born and raised in the south, this looks like a really good book!
I have decided not to read this book, it's languished on Mt. TBR for a few years. This book is ready to travel.
Putting into the 18th round of Bookstogive's General Literature VBB.
This VBB ended a couple of years ago so it's ready to travel.
Journal Entry 11 by JennyC1230 at Little Free Library Etowah River Park in Canton, Georgia USA on Sunday, November 20, 2022
Released 1 yr ago (11/20/2022 UTC) at Little Free Library Etowah River Park in Canton, Georgia USA
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Left in the LFL near the playground. Enjoy the book!
Left in the LFL near the playground. Enjoy the book!