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Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes
Cathy Holton
Ballantine
May 2006
288 pages ISBN: 1400063671 Hardcover
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Women's Fiction Contemporary | Women's Fiction
kud • zu kud-zü n: a ubiquitous vine/weed found in
Southern climes that, left uncontrolled, will grow over
any fixed object in its path, including trees, power
lines, and the entire state of Georgia. deb•u•tante de-byu-tänt n: a young woman making a debut
into society, easily spotted in white dress and pearl
necklace. Common names include Muffy, Bootsy, and Bunny. Eadie Boone is no shrinking violet. An artist and former
beauty queen who married into one of the first families of
Ithaca, Georgia, she tackles everything with gusto and
flair. But tailing her wayward husband proves to be, well,
an exasperating chore. If only Trevor would just see the
light, dump his twenty-two-year-old hussy, and return
home, Eadie’s creative energy could be put to better use.
Now all she has to do is convince him. Nita Broadwell, a good Southern girl from a good Southern
family, is jolted out of complacency when she discovers
condoms in her husband’s shirt pocket (“Maybe he’d found
them on the ground and picked them up”). Between clinging
to denial and dodging her overbearing mother-in-law, Nita
is also trying to break her addiction to steamy bodice-
ripper novels. Only now it appears she’s authoring her own
real-life romance tale with a hunky handyman thirteen
years her junior. Lavonne Zibolsky–a transplanted Yankee, bless her heart–is
saddled with planning the annual Broadwell & Boone law
firm party. That and her lackluster marriage have her
seeking solace in the contents of her refrigerator. If she
could just put down the Rocky Road ice cream and peach
pie, she might get around to finding a caterer, dropping
sixty pounds, and figuring out how to fall in love with
her husband again. Not necessarily in that order. Bonded by years of friendship, these three women discover
what else they have in common: lying, cheating spouses. So
they heed their collective betrayals as a wake-up call and
band together to exact sweet revenge. The take-charge trio
will see to it that the punishment is just, exquisitely
humiliating, and downright hilarious. Cathy Holton’s debut novel is a delicious yarn of
friendship and marriage, secrets and retribution, and how
nothing stays hidden for long. Against a Southern backdrop
of gentility and decorum, Revenge of the Kudzu Debutantes
dares to abandon Junior League social graces in ways that
would make even Scarlett O’Hara blush.
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