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Big Hair and Flying Cows (Sweet Meadows Series #1)

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Ms. Wilson has created a wonderful little world made up of characters that are a combination of sweet to crazy. There is never a dull day in the life of Bertie Bryd! Still she manages to laugh, cry, and muddle through with a great sense of humor. The reader will do the same. This is one of the funniest books I've read in a very long time! This is basically a story about Bertie and her little corner of the world. Sweet Meadow, Georgia sounds like a fun place to live...or at least escape to!

Bertie drives a wrecker but she also acts as a taxi driver for Millie since she doesn't have a car (Millie is hilarious), is best friends with Mary Lou who is not always the brightest bulb in the package...and now Mary Lou is pregnant and Rex and she are getting married. Bertie has also found a boyfriend. Trouble with Jeff is she doesn't know much about him, but he's great looking. He's also a stripper and a mill worker. Than there's Arch, which is Pete's son. This is a great part of the story and without giving anything away one of my favorites. Than there is Pete himself. He keeps showing up inside the house she's renting (okay, he owns it but he now calls a nursing home his home now) sometimes dressed, sometimes not...and there are the times that he and his nursing home friends place the crank calls and what have you. Still Pete becomes a fixture of sorts around Bertie's home. And this is just a few of the characters that enrich this great story!

This story made me laugh, and cry! I love stories that offer characters that the reader can relate to and identify with. This story does just that. Ms. Wilson's debut effort is amazing! She is truly an author that bears watching in the future. Medallion Press has managed to add another wonderful jewel to their crown! I highly recommend that you run, not walk to your nearest bookseller to pick up "Big Hair and Flying Cows."

I adored this debut novel. I had read the reviews and was prepared for funny, but in places, this novel is hilarious. And Ms. Wilson's take on Southern women is so dead-on. In reading, I had flashes of relatives that were just amazingly accurately depicted. I love it that the protagonist fails her way to success. That just made the book for me. One question remains: When can we read Bertie's next adventure?

Bertie the tow truck driver and a host of equally colorful characters make BIG HAIR AND FLYING COWS a reader's treat. It's funny and well-written. I'd compare it to Jan Karon's Mitford series or Tamar Meyers's Penn Dutch Inn mysteries as the author gives you a slice of small town life rich with drama, crises, and laugh-out-loud humor. I hope this is just the first in a series because I can't wait to read more of Bertie's adventures!

Bertie Byrd is your typical Mayberry RFD tomboy, with a heart of gold and a wonderful sense of humor. She isn't so lucky in love and she's beginning to wonder if she ever will be. But the ins and outs of her every day life as written in the first person, are filled with humor, delightful scenarios, and a taste of melancholy where her parents are concerned. I don't know when I've enjoyed such a light-hearted read so much, and was so pleased with the ending. Dolores J. Wilson must have a heart of gold and it shows in her writing. I'll be looking to buy her next novel when it's published in December.

I laughed outloud throughout most of the book & thought this would make a fantastic "country sitcom" for television! Bertie is someone I would like to know! Be prepared to laugh!

All Roberta "Bertie" Bird wants is to live a normal life. However that is not easy when you drive a two truck five days a week in which your neighbors in Sweet Meadow, Georgia think is a taxi service. They will do anything and everything to get their ride. Even moving out from her parents' home has not proven easy since the owner and previous resident elderly Pete Forney constantly sneaks out of the nursing home to "visit" Birdie when he is not trying to toss her out.

She has males in her life, but none reach first base because the zany world intrude from Catch 22 zoning laws to running over a mattress that destroys her wrecker that places "Dirty Bird" on national TV. Following the death of Pete, Birdie meets Pete's son Arch and his granddaughter Petey; they make her feel normal except he fled when she kissed him. Life in Bertie's beloved rural Georgia means the sublime is the norm.

BIG HAIR AND FLYING COWS is a series of vignettes centering loosely on a series of misfortune hammering at Bertie that is similar in many ways to the Mossy Creek tales. Bertie is a delight as her efforts to obtain normalcy is constantly devastated by those in need of her services. Her autobiographical account of sh*t happens is southern humor at its most jocular. Mossy Creek readers will appreciate a slice of life in Sweet Meadow through the eyes of a native daughter who just wants the garage sign changed to Bird and daughter from Bird and Sons as she remains while her brothers flew the coop years ago.

Harriet Klausner