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Title

Mad girls in love / Michael Lee West.

Author

West, Michael Lee.

Publication

New York : HarperCollins, [2005], ©2005.

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Description

528 pages; 24 cm

Summary

"In her colorful first novel, Crazy Ladies, Michael Lee West brought to life three generations of unforgettable G.R.I.T.S. (Girls Raised In The South). In Mad Girls in Love she's brought some of the Ladies back and also added a whole new wacky and lovable cost. You'll want to join them for a gloss of sweet tea or punch spiked with pure grain alcohol and get the real gossip." "At the center of the group is Bitsy, who, when the novel opens in 1972, is a self-proclaimed girlie-girl who "couldn't name the presidents in order, but ... knew the name and manufacturer of every lipstick and eye shadow in Rexall Drugs." Mad Girls in Love follows Bitsy from our first glimpse of her as an eighteen-year-old wife and mother on the lam with her baby daughter through two decodes as she develops into a worldly blond beauty. Every milestone in Bitsy's life seems to be marked with something shattering: Starting with her teenaged husband's nose, the damage includes Fostoria goblets, a baby blue Mustang, a crystal cocktail pitcher, a champagne bottle, fingernails, perfume flasks, Spade teacups, and, of course, hearts." "Bad luck with men is a birthright - maybe it's because eccentricity runs in her family. Bitsy's mother, Dorothy, spent years in the local mental hospital and still writes to First - and occasionally Second - Ladies. Her aunt Clancy Jane was, for a long time, the town's only hippie and eventually become the local Crazy Cat Lady."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

• Southern States > Social life and customs > Fiction
• Women > Southern States > Fiction

ISBN

006018406X (acid-free paper)

LCCN

2004042371

OCLC

• 56419614
• ocm56419614
• SCSB-5215768

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries