ISBN: 0-312-30056-5 (hardcover) 0-312-98939-3 (paperback) St. Martin's Press Reading Group Guide (pdf) Read an Excerpt Buy This Book Southern housewife Linwood Breedlove Scott was happily content in her comfortable, complacent thirty-year marriage, but when her husband cleans out their bank accounts and runs off with a stripper, her life takes a hilarious, yet touching, right turn into reality. With no place to go but home, she's forced back to her insular hometown and the "eccentric" family she escaped by marrying at nineteen: her senile father, her loving-yet-controlling mother, her long-suffering aunt, her crazy uncle, and her good-for-nothing brother. But despite her newly dependent situation and her family's genteel insanity, Lin begins to stand on her own two feet and wake up to the joys-and perils-of life as a single woman. And she also learns surprising lessons about her family: that things aren't always what they seem, and that the power of love governs even the most dysfunctional of relationships. This joy-filled, moving, and wise-cracking novel delivers a portrait of Southern life, Southern families, and self-discovery that readers will never forget. Buy This Book 1 Book Street Davis-Kidd Booksellers A1 Books Elliott Bay Book Company Amazon.com Hastings Barnes and Noble Joseph-Beth Booksellers Books-A-Million KingBooks BooksNow Northern California Independent Booksellers BookSense Powells Books Borders Shopping.com buy.com Tattered Cover Bookstore A Clean Well-Lighted Place Wal-mart
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