The title only comes clear in the last few paragraphs of the book. The journey to the singing of the unburied is painful and tender all at once. A story of three generations of bayou people living in an enchanted, haunted world.
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The Alice Network — Kate Quinn
At the end of the second world war, Charlie — a young aimless woman, arrives in Europe with her mother and the need to sort out a Little Problem.
12 Rules for Life: An Antidote to Chaos — Jordan B. Peterson
One man’s rules for a good life and the reason that he chose them. I don’t always agree with him on either the rules or the logic behind them.
Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Other Dangers of Southern Living — Bailey White
I was looking for something more recent by White but she doesn’t seem to have done anything other than a christmasy book since her heyday in the late 90’s. So I reread this because everyone needs to have an aunt who teaches an alligator to bellow on command and a mother who… well Ms. White …
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Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe — Fanny Flagg
(pub. 2002) A mix of the contemporary interviews, in the moment story telling, and little bits from newspapers make an interesting way of telling a story. Much of the story is narrated by Ninny Threadgoode — a woman who married in the to the Threadgoode family. She’s not exactly an unreliable narrator but she has her …
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