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She Flew the Coop: A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana
: It took me a good three chapters to get into this book, but I was soon hooked. I enjoyed following the lives of three significantly different women and seeing how their lives change and grow -- all mirrored by the problems in Olive's short precious life. The writing is fantastic and so are the recipes! This book is an enjoyable read!
This is a book not to be missed. It is warm, wise, and wonderful. She Flew the Coop is story telling at its best. Ms. West writes deliciously well and gives such life and breath to a place and its people that you'll yearn to know more about them and visit with them long after you've read the last page. The tragic and the comic find such a natural balance in Ms. West's writing that the events of the book just seem a part of life, not extraordinary. The attention to detail is so exquisite that you'll feel as if you are being let in on privileged information that only those closest to the story's teller must know. There isn't space to say enough nice things about this book. Suffice it to say that story telling this good doesn't come along very often. Treat yourself!
This book was definitely worth the investment.
It covered many relevant topics. However, a more appropriate subtitle would be "A Novel concerning
Life, Death, Sex, "Religon" and recipes.
The story starts off slowly, which is probably best, because, it takes a while to get all the characters straight.
and the ending is suprising, but not unexpected. I also have tried a recipe from this book and it was delicious.
I did not want this book to end. Whenever I was away, I couldn't wait to pick it back up. The characters were great!
If you read one book this year, read She Flew the Coop. It's wickedy funny, but it's also poignant, written with grace and depth. Fast paced and funny, SFTC is a crazy quilt of a novel, stitched with love. The book is full of recipes, and you can really cook them! Ms. West is a modern day Jane Austen, plunked own in the American South. You have to get down on your knees to find her in the bookstores, but it's worth the effort
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