She flew the coop Book

This is the perfect book for fans of Steel Magnolias and Fried Green Tomatoes and other great triumphs of Southern drama/comedy literature. It's a sprawling novel featuring almost a dozen POV's and a great deal of time is spent in back story and flashback, but it all works thanks to West's engaging style where one can almost hear the Southern narrators spinning their tales (I read this book, but I would bet that this would be an AWESOME audio book or read-aloud book for a road trip). With so many characters and a host of homey recipes, this would be a great book-club book. So many books that do recipes feel like they are adding them because they are the trendy thing right now and the recipes really don't bear any relation to the plot. Here, the recipes are an absolutely essential part of the story, and I particularly like where they are just woven right into the narrative. In many cases the recipe cuts to heart of the character in a beautiful way, and many of the recipes are very, very simple things--three or four ingredients, totally fitting this time and place.