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Editorial Reviews
From Publishers Weekly
When 16-year-old Olive Nepper eschews Jesus and drinks a Nehi laced with rose poison, it is with good reason: she is carrying the child of Baptist minister T. C. Kirby, a man of stolen identity who once didn't know "Jesus from a Junebug." As Olive lingers in a two-month coma, and radios spew updates on Korea, polio and the Rosenberg trial, the town of Limoges, La., flutters with private dramas and the ensuing public whispers. Olive's frowzy mother, Vangie, whose expertise lies in canning, recipe reduction and horticulture, is protected by all but the most vicious gossipmonger from learning of Olive's pregnancy and the affair between her husband, pharmacist Henry, and his countergirl, Dee Dee Robichaux. The story is told with perfect pitch by many voices, including those of transplanted New York artist Edith Galliard, widow-magnet funeral director Cab Beaulieu, and long-suffering black housekeeper Sophie Donnell. As Vangie waits for Olive to waken and Henry to come home, nearly everyone is getting his or her just deserts, and business is brisk for Beaulieu. Vangie's final self-redemption is but part of a feel-good tie-up of small-town life threads. The author of the acclaimed Crazy Ladies has captured the color, eccentricities and tragicomedy that the best Southern writers do so well.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
The inhabitants of Limoges, Louisiana, seem to have only two things on their minds-sex and food. The married and the unmarried alike find completely unsatisfactory partners during one long, wet springtime. When 16-year-old Olive Nepper finds that she is pregnant by the local preacher, she confronts him, but he sends her away. In a childish fit to make him sorry, she drinks poison, which puts her in a coma. The many voices of Limoges residents tell her story and the story of the town as Olive lies in the hospital day after day. Some residents also feel the need to share their menus and recipes with the reader. Lives change as the spring ripens, and one by one the ill-fated romances crumble. Poignant and subtle, humorous and direct, West's work represents a cross-section of small-town life in the South. Recommended for general collections.
Joanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Coll. of Continuing Education Lib., Providence
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
See all Editorial Reviews
When 16-year-old Olive Nepper eschews Jesus and drinks a Nehi laced with rose poison, it is with good reason: she is carrying the child of Baptist minister T. C. Kirby, a man of stolen identity who once didn't know "Jesus from a Junebug." As Olive lingers in a two-month coma, and radios spew updates on Korea, polio and the Rosenberg trial, the town of Limoges, La., flutters with private dramas and the ensuing public whispers. Olive's frowzy mother, Vangie, whose expertise lies in canning, recipe reduction and horticulture, is protected by all but the most vicious gossipmonger from learning of Olive's pregnancy and the affair between her husband, pharmacist Henry, and his countergirl, Dee Dee Robichaux. The story is told with perfect pitch by many voices, including those of transplanted New York artist Edith Galliard, widow-magnet funeral director Cab Beaulieu, and long-suffering black housekeeper Sophie Donnell. As Vangie waits for Olive to waken and Henry to come home, nearly everyone is getting his or her just deserts, and business is brisk for Beaulieu. Vangie's final self-redemption is but part of a feel-good tie-up of small-town life threads. The author of the acclaimed Crazy Ladies has captured the color, eccentricities and tragicomedy that the best Southern writers do so well.
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
From Library Journal
The inhabitants of Limoges, Louisiana, seem to have only two things on their minds-sex and food. The married and the unmarried alike find completely unsatisfactory partners during one long, wet springtime. When 16-year-old Olive Nepper finds that she is pregnant by the local preacher, she confronts him, but he sends her away. In a childish fit to make him sorry, she drinks poison, which puts her in a coma. The many voices of Limoges residents tell her story and the story of the town as Olive lies in the hospital day after day. Some residents also feel the need to share their menus and recipes with the reader. Lives change as the spring ripens, and one by one the ill-fated romances crumble. Poignant and subtle, humorous and direct, West's work represents a cross-section of small-town life in the South. Recommended for general collections.
Joanna M. Burkhardt, Univ. of Rhode Island Coll. of Continuing Education Lib., Providence
Copyright 1994 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
See all Editorial Reviews
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