Finished: March, 2009
Pages: 149
Challenges:
** Spring Reading Thing'
** Read and Review
** 20 in 2009
** TBR 2009
** 9 for 2009
** A-Z Challenge
** New Author
First sentence: "The summer of 1962, the year of the pie fair, I was wild for baseball."
Last sentence: "Okay, let me tell you about the pie fair..."
This book was sweet. A wonderful coming of age story following Roxanne from age 12 through adulthood--(including her own motherhood). Small town life and fairly healthy family relationships are portrayed in such a positive manner. After reading it I wanted to move to Annette, Texas! Throughout the delightfulness heavy topics are touched upon too----death, homosexuality, racism, post traumatic stress syndrome, suicide, and drug/alcohol addiction.
From Publishers Weekly
Comparisons to Fried Green Tomatoes have become so commonplace that readers begin to suspect publishers of hyperbole until they come across something as front-porch charming as this episodic debut novel, covering nearly 30 years in the life of Roxanne Milner. Beginning in 1961, when Roxanne is 12, the 10 stand-alone chapters, most ending in dessert recipes and each serving up a witty, quirky slice of a single life, take as their primary setting Annette, Tex., a postage-stamp-sized town where even the advent of the first female mail carrier is big news.
If it makes you want to move there, it makes me want to read it!
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