Finally, a book that I can recommend to anyone and everyone. (Synopsis from barnesandnoble.com)"Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town-a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee is left to fend for herself. To the rescue comes her previously unknown great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell. In her vintage Packard convertible, Tootie whisks CeeCee away to Savannah's perfumed world of prosperity and Southern eccentricity, a world that seems to be run entirely by women. From the exotic Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in her backyard bathtub and uses garden slugs as her secret weapons, to Tootie's all-knowing housekeeper, Oletta Jones, to Violene Hobbs, who entertains a local police officer in her canary-yellow peignoir, the women of Gaston..."
For those who follow my book reviews, many times I find myself saying that despite the challenging content I love a book, or despite the unconventional material that it should be read. Not this one. It's a crowd pleaser... You will fall in love with CeeCee, and the characters that come with her throughout the book. It's well written, heart wrenching at times, but most of all leaves you smiling at the antics and situations that CeeCee experiences as her life gets put back together...
Happy Reading!
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