Georgia Bottoms

Georgia Bottoms, is a 30 something Southern "lady" from Six Points, Alabama. From all outward appearances she has it all together. She is single by choice and takes care of her aging and increasingly forgetful mama, and her brother, who is always getting into some sort of trouble. She wears fashionable clothes, is friends with the female mayor and attends church EVERY Sunday because that is what good Southern ladies do. However, appearances can be deceiving. Ms. Georgia Bottoms has a side life that no one in town is aware of, even her own Mama who lives in the main house. Georgia entertains a different influential man in town one night per week, six nights out of the week. One is the bank manager, one the sheriff, and one is the preacher of her church. She has never asked them for money for her company but they all leave her a gift when they go. Until....it all comes unraveled. Just when Georgia thinks she has a handle on the next crisis, something else happens. Her secrets keep popping out all over and before long she is swimming in a pool of lies and carefully engineered plans and schemes. She cannot seem to keep it together and then it gets worse. The biggest secret of her entire life is exposed and she has no choice but to step up to the plate and figure a way out of the fallout.

I loved the characters because they are familiar to me. I have lived in a small Alabama town and even now, live in a larger town but with the same kind of people. My ABSOLUTE favorite part is when Georgia gets Eugene Hendrix "re-assigned" by the Baptist Convention and then calls the moving truck to show up on their steps and move Eugene and Brenda, just out of spite. I would do that. Great, fast read that had some unexpected twists and turns and kept me turning page after page.

I think that this is a book that you will either like or hate. There were parts of Georgia that I did not like at all. But she is a scrapper and found a way to take care of her family in her own way. If you are easily offended by adultery, lies, vapid females with no real sense of the outside world, etc. then this book is not for you.