Always wore big flowered hats and bright-colored dresses, never “quiet” clothes like nice ladies were supposed to wear on the street. Nobody asked my opinion, but I had always admired Miss Love, with all that wavy brown hair piled atop her head, and that smiley, freckledy face and those friendly gray-blue eyes. Rucker’s 14-year-old grandson and our narrator, Will Tweedy, sees it like this: And frankly, he doesn’t give a damn (homage to another great Georgian novel/film). A prominent family’s matriarch (Miss Mattie Lou) has died and her widow, Rucker Blakeslee, elopes with a woman young enough to be his daughter a mere three weeks after his wife’s death. In 1906, Cold Sassy, Georgia is rocked by scandal. None of this matters too much except that reading this book felt like going home. Commerce is only about an hour up I-85 from my current home in Atlanta. She being born and raised in Commerce, Georgia (inspiration for the book’s Cold Sassy) and me being born in Atlanta and raised in a tee-tiny little South Georgia town called Thomasville. Burns and I share our birth state, Georgia. This book and I share a birth year (1984).
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