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Love and Hot Chicken: A Delicious Southern Novel
Paperback
General FictionGeneral GLBTQIA Fiction
Publisher Price: $18.99
ISBN13: 9780063304802
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: Feb 25 2025
Pages: 272
Weight: 0.43
Height: 0.61 Width: 5.31 Depth: 8.00
Language: English
Delightful! This novel will open your heart and preach to your funny bone.--Jill Conner Browne, New York Times bestselling author of the Sweet Potato Queen's Book of Love
The debut of a dynamite new voice from the South, Love and Hot Chicken is a spicy and hilarious southern rom-com about family, friendship, fried chicken, and two girls in love.
The Chickie Shak is something of a historical landmark. Red clapboard walls, thriving wasp population, yard-toilets resplendent with sunflowers. My best friend Lee Ray and I used to come after our softball games and snag a picnic table while our mammas ordered the home team special. Truth is, most people around here order the same thing until the day somebody throws their ashes off a roller coaster at Dollywood. The line snakes around the building as far as you can see, the grimiest bunch of Jessies, Pearls, and Scooters you ever did behold, hobnobbing in the parking lot from noon until night.
When PJ Spoon returns home for her beloved daddy's funeral, she doesn't expect to stick around. Why abandon her PhD program at Vanderbilt for the humble charms of her hometown, Pennywhistle, Tennessee? Mamma's broken heart, that's why. But truth be told, PJ's own heart ain't doing too good either. She impulsively takes a job as a fry cook at Pennywhistle's beloved Chickie Shak, where locals gather for Nashville-style hot chicken. It may not be glamorous, but it's something to do.
Fate, and a healthy dose of Southern humor, shakes up PJ's life again when the town rallies around the terribly retro and terribly fun Hot Chicken Pageant. PJ finally notices her cute redheaded coworker Boof, a singer-songwriter with a talent as striking as her curly hair, and learns to fear her smack-talking manager, Linda.
As PJ and Boof fall for each other, Boof's search for her birth mother--a Pennywhistle native--catapults the budding couple into a heartwarming mystery that might be better left unsolved. The Chickie Shak pageant takes off, spurring old rivalries and new friendships in this tale of found family, unexpected connections and new beginnings.
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