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Some Days There's Pie: A Novel

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Ruth married young and finds out that her beloved is more attached to God and his "out there" church than her so she leaves him and hits the road. Not before he gives her $300 and buys her a car. She leaves her pathetic family too and heads on her way for a new life, not sure where she'll end up. In another small, Southern town she meets Rose, an older woman dying of lung cancer and through her, does Ruth blossom.
This is a work of literature at its best. Thoroughly entertaining. Very funny in parts and sad mostly but you will find it a true craft of storytelling at its best.

Isn't that the truth. This book is overall a very good book. I loved the small town life and people fighting for what they believe in. I however had trouble with the views of no God and the relationships seemed shallow. It seems Ruth just drifts from place to place, not really giving anyone a chance to know her. She invents herself completely different from who she really is. That isn't getting to know people really.

I have trouble with no real love just people shacking up with this person and that person. Maybe I am just not the person to read a book that rambles or has more literal meanings. Maybe they went way over my head. Whatever way, I would still read more by this author, I think!

I generally like books writen about the south, but found this one to be slow moving. I usually keep my books and read them many times as I always get something I missed the first time. Unfortunately, this is one that is going to Goodwill after the first reading.

This book is about a young, small-town girl, Ruth, in the 70's who "got-out-of town" by marrying the first guy who offered to take her away. When that marriage ended soon after, she travels to a new town and finds an older woman, Rose who gives her what she is looking for in a mother-figure. The book takes place over a year, but fails to develop any plot line other that the friendship/mother-figure relationship between the two women.

Overall an easy and quick read. You might identify with it if you are from a small town.