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Ballantine
August 2005
Featuring: Layla Jay
288 pages
ISBN: 0345468430
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Women's Fiction
A lyrical coming-of-age story set in the 1960s, Hot Fudge
Sundae Blues is an extraordinary companion to Bev
Marshall’s first two novels, Walking Through Shadows and
Right as Rain. Here again she mines the territory of the
small town of Zebulon, Mississippi, where even the most
seemingly ordinary folks harbor well-disguised heartaches
and intricate secrets. Thirteen-year-old Layla Jay was only pretending when she
knelt before the preacher to seek salvation. She was hoping
to make her grandma happy and get noticed by the cute new
boy in town. But religion truly piques her interest when a
young, handsome visiting preacher stays at her family’s
home. Wallace seems genuinely interested in Layla Jay’s
life–until he meets her mama and falls head over heels,
like many men have before him. When Wallace marries Frieda, Layla Jay believes she will
finally have the father she’s always wanted. But it seems
that none of her dreams will come true as Layla Jay
wrestles with her mother’s reckless ways, her unsavory
stepfather, a best friend’s betrayal, and the longing for
love’s first kiss. Yet everything pales in comparison to
what happens next as Layla Jay is forced to tell a lie to
save her mother’s world from crashing down.
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