Four friends reunite at a friend's beach house to reminisce and reconnect after years apart. Their lives have gone in different directions after college. One is a famous writer with no ties, a second is in a loveless marriage with a controlling husband, the third is in a stagnate lifestyle that d...
I liked the narrator in this book. I think in a lot of books, the narrator is almost meant to be the universally relatable and likeable character, which means that usually the character is pretty mild-mannered, and not overly confident or ambitious. But this narrator is unusually sharp-tongued,...
kud • zu \kud-zü\ n: a ubiquitous vine/weed found in Southern climes that, left uncontrolled, will grow over any fixed object in its path, including trees, power lines, and the entire state of Georgia. deb•u•tante \de-byu-tänt\ n: a young woman making a debut into society, easily spotted in whi...
Cotillion: A formal gathering of bright young women on the verge of entering adulthood, the society pages, and prospective high-tax-bracket marriages. Think a Civil War reenactment with crisp, clean white dresses. Catfight: An impromptu gathering of not-so-young women on the verge of losing thei...
“I'm a little disappointed,” Eadie said, looking up at the soft purple sky. A pale sliver of moon rested on the top of Lavonne's garage like a scimitar. “I was really hoping we'd be able to come up with some way to get even with Virginia for stealing Nita's child.” “‘Hope’ and ‘Virginia’ don't be...
She did this out of the goodness of her heart and because she was a dutiful daughter and sister, even though it meant that she must take unpaid time off from work and make other arrangements for day care for the boys. Which was not easy to arrange these days, as the boys had been slandered at sch...