Fannie Flagg
2013
Fannie Flagg's long-anticipated new book is a delight. Like many of her books, it continues the story of characters we first met in Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! This time, we read more about Sookie and Earl Poole, now empty-nesters.
As the book opens, Sookie is finally ready to relax, having married off the last of her daughters. Before she can settle in to a calm routine though, she receives old documents in the mail that reveal a long-hidden family secret. In characteristic Fannie Flagg style, the book has frequent flashbacks and tells us the story from many characters' points of view.
This is a wonderful story about family and identity that I wanted to savor but also had trouble putting down—like all Flagg novels, it is a treat.
Hannah Wilkes
Musselman-South Berkeley Community Library
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