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Michael Lee West's indomitable G.R.I.T.S. (Girls Raised in the South) are back -- enduring rough times with all the grace and outrageous flair expected of true Southern heroines.Bitsy Wentworth -- fleeing yet another relationship nightmare in a -borrowed- red Corvette, with her baby daughter and a recently acquired -demon child- -- has an APB out on her for attempted murder (she broke her ex-husband's nose with a frozen slab of ribs that she purchased at the Piggly Wiggly). Her mama, show more Dorothy, is writing letters to First Ladies from inside the Central State Asylum, while Aunt Clancy Jane has completed her inevitable progression from hippie to local Crazy Cat Lady. Three generations of unforgettable Crystal Falls, Tennessee, women -- and the men they attract, enrage, and confound -- are courageously plowing through tumultuous lives of compound disaster . . . and hoping the chaos the next wrong step leads to won't be insurmountable. show lessTags
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I am thankful that I listened to the abridged audiobook edition (5 CDs) rather than read 500+ pages of these ridiculous women. They are three generations of mildly-to-completely-kooky women to whom crazy things happen and who seem to have no capacity for reflection. All the men are drunk womanizers who done them wrong, but the ladies are still alive and speaking to each other (sometimes) so this means they persevere? Or something? I can only hope that the full length version allows for some depth.
The only reason I listened to more than one CD was that I was out of other options... it did get better, but it was never good.
The only reason I listened to more than one CD was that I was out of other options... it did get better, but it was never good.
Fun read - especially if you just want to relax for a while. Finished 4/8/07
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Michael Lee West is a LibraryThing Author, an author who lists their personal library on LibraryThing.
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Common Knowledge
- Canonical title
- Mad Girls in Love: A Novel
- Alternate titles
- Mad Girls in Love
- Original publication date
- 2006-07-03
- People/Characters
- Bitsy Wentworth; Dorothy McDougal; Clancy Jane; Claude Wentworth; Jennifer Wentworth; Louie (show all 7); Pierre
- Important places
- Crystal Falls, Tennessee, USA; Tennessee, USA
- Dedication
- for Ellen Levine
- First words
- 1. Get out of bed.
- Last words
- (Click to show. Warning: May contain spoilers.)Jennifer squeezed her mother’s hand and made another wish: Let me be just like this woman.
- Original language
- English
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Statistics
- Members
- 198
- Popularity
- 164,992
- Reviews
- 2
- Rating
- (3.91)
- Languages
- English
- Media
- Paper, Ebook
- ISBNs
- 5
- ASINs
- 2
