An aging couple,Tom and Tinkerbell, who operate a country general store, befriend Josh Adams, a young man struggling to survive in the post-depression, rural South. Josh discovers a mysterious curve-a hairpin turn in a road that seems to lead to nowhere in the middle of the woods. Despite being warned that the "curve" is cursed and inhabited by a ghost, Josh becomes enchanted by the curve and decides to build his home there. Josh endures hunger, a life-threatening blizzard, dangerous moonshiners, and a stint in the Navy during World War II, before finally settling down and getting married. But, it is left to his daughter,Molly Adams, to eventually solve the mystery of The Curve.
It was 1956, rock and roll was in its infancy, a television could be found in almost every household, and almost everyone in Willow Springs, Alabama, liked Ike. Life in this semi-rural town a few miles north of Birmingham was easy enough for most people and full of promise. Carolyn "Peewee" Turner, a spunky red-haired tomboy, survives adolescence while growing up in a dysfunctional family consisting of her mother, Roberta, a call girl whose smashing good looks could stop traffic, Tina, her little sister who had a serious psychological problem, and Howard Turner, her absentee truck driving father who doubts that Tina is his child. Carolyn, whose low-income family lives in a mobile home, has a crush on Buddy Brandon, a very popular high-school football star and son of well-to-do parents. Thrust into adulthood prematurely, Carolyn faces many challenges in her quest for happiness, including an unplanned pregnancy, being married to the wrong man, and being forced to raise her little sister under difficult circumstances. Her life takes several unexpected turns, through tragedy and triumph, and along the way, she learns many valuable lessons about love and forgiveness.
Everyone agrees that the best way to murder Aunt Flossie is to put rat poison in her butterbeans, but there is one little problem. She never leaves the butterbeans long enough for someone to poison them without her seeing. You will love to hate Aunt Flossie, the foulmouthed octogenarian whose sole purpose in life, it seems, is to make everyone around her miserable, especially the wicked Mr. Lawrence, a millionaire whose hobbies include smuggling arms to Fidel Castro's Cuban revolutionaries in 1957. In this hilarious comedy/mystery, Aunt Flossie just "takes a notion" to pay an uninvited and unwelcome visit to her nephew Virgil, who lives with Mr. Lawrence at his seaside mansion in Miami, Florida. Aunt Flossie's obnoxious ways-getting drunk, farting, spitting on the carpet, and cursing, just to name a few-finally drive Mr. Lawrence to bribe her with a brand new Cadillac just to make her go away. But is a new car enough to silence Aunt Flossie forever?
Everyone agrees that the best way to murder Aunt Flossie is to put rat poison in her butterbeans, but there is one little problem. She never leaves the butterbeans long enough for someone to poison them without her seeing. You will love to hate Aunt Flossie, the foulmouthed octogenarian whose sole purpose in life, it seems, is to make everyone around her miserable, especially the wicked Mr. Lawrence, a millionaire whose hobbies include smuggling arms to Fidel Castro's Cuban revolutionaries in 1957. In this hilarious comedy/mystery, Aunt Flossie just "takes a notion" to pay an uninvited and unwelcome visit to her nephew Virgil, who lives with Mr. Lawrence at his seaside mansion in Miami, Florida. Aunt Flossie's obnoxious ways-getting drunk, farting, spitting on the carpet, and cursing, just to name a few-finally drive Mr. Lawrence to bribe her with a brand new Cadillac just to make her go away. But is a new car enough to silence Aunt Flossie forever?
It was 1956, rock and roll was in its infancy, a television could be found in almost every household, and almost everyone in Willow Springs, Alabama, liked Ike. Life in this semi-rural town a few miles north of Birmingham was easy enough for most people and full of promise. Carolyn "Peewee" Turner, a spunky red-haired tomboy, survives adolescence while growing up in a dysfunctional family consisting of her mother, Roberta, a call girl whose smashing good looks could stop traffic, Tina, her little sister who had a serious psychological problem, and Howard Turner, her absentee truck driving father who doubts that Tina is his child. Carolyn, whose low-income family lives in a mobile home, has a crush on Buddy Brandon, a very popular high-school football star and son of well-to-do parents. Thrust into adulthood prematurely, Carolyn faces many challenges in her quest for happiness, including an unplanned pregnancy, being married to the wrong man, and being forced to raise her little sister under difficult circumstances. Her life takes several unexpected turns, through tragedy and triumph, and along the way, she learns many valuable lessons about love and forgiveness.
An aging couple,Tom and Tinkerbell, who operate a country general store, befriend Josh Adams, a young man struggling to survive in the post-depression, rural South. Josh discovers a mysterious curve-a hairpin turn in a road that seems to lead to nowhere in the middle of the woods. Despite being warned that the "curve" is cursed and inhabited by a ghost, Josh becomes enchanted by the curve and decides to build his home there. Josh endures hunger, a life-threatening blizzard, dangerous moonshiners, and a stint in the Navy during World War II, before finally settling down and getting married. But, it is left to his daughter,Molly Adams, to eventually solve the mystery of The Curve.
Ned Baldwin, the former chef of Prune, now chef-owner of New York City's Houseman restaurant, and the noted food writer Peter Kaminsky share simple, maverick dishes and techniques that you can transform into a wealth of new recipes"--
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