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No one in the South ever asks if you have crazy people in your family. They just ask what side they’re on.

August 25, 2016 by Lynn 3 Comments

When I was little, my mother had an avocado green Tupperware bowl. She also had a red one and a harvest gold one, and I’m pretty sure there was a blue one, too. They were different sizes, but they all had lids that had a translucent sort of flower pattern on top, so they were obviously part of a set. The bowl itself was also translucent, and more often than not, the green Tupperware bowl sat on the second shelf of our fridge with bunches […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: coming-of-age, Mark Childress, Southern, The Mama

Lynn's CBR8 Review No:43 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: coming-of-age, Mark Childress, Southern, The Mama ·
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I think you mean “Selfish Bitch Flees Alabama”

September 3, 2015 by badkittyuno Leave a Comment

Oh this book make made so MAD! Set in the 1960s in Alabama, Mark Childress’s novel follows two plotlines/perspectives. First is Peejoe, a twelve year old boy who lives with his grandmother. One day his Aunt Lucille shows up with all of her kids — and her dead husband’s head — announcing that she killed her husband because he wouldn’t let her go to Hollywood (seriously). She shows everyone the head, even her poor kids, dumps the children with her mother and drives off to […]

Filed Under: Fiction Tagged With: badkittyuno, Mark Childress

badkittyuno's CBR7 Review No:169 · Genres: Fiction · Tags: badkittyuno, Mark Childress ·
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