Eudora “Pea” O’Brien is trying to find her place in the world after losing the last of her family. Her huge heart has her making unscheduled stops on her journey for a stray kitten, a pregnant teenager named Alex, running from an abusive boyfriend, and the charming
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Many strong women are featured in the markers chosen for chapter headings in The Goddess of Fried Okra, and no question the Women’s Airforce Service Pilots (WASP) are among the most remarkable. These women flew every kind of mission short of combat in WWII, freeing male
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Sometimes life gives us gifts of pure grace; one such for me was meeting Pea. She began as an exercise in sheer fun—sitting on my deck in a wicker rocker, taking a few weeks off from my contracted writing to see if, after several years as a
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I’ve told you before that I don’t love plotting ahead before I write a book, but when planning a series, sometimes even I have to take a stab at it. I will scribble notes on paper or the whiteboard in my office, and all too often they
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Our visit there was at the behest of my oldest granddaughter, caught up in the craze for then-new artist Taylor Swi ft (before she abandoned country for pop and my granddaughter’s tastes moved on, too) and she held only a tiny corner exhibit. I didn’t expect all
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