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My Summer of Southern Discomfort
Stephanie Gayle
William Morrow
July 2007
On Sale: July 1, 2007
Featuring: Natalie Goldberg
256 pages
ISBN: 0061236292
EAN: 9780061236297
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Today is Monday. The calls do not come as
before. Weeks elapse between them, and when I answer the
phone there is no overlap of voices, only my mother's. She
spends much of the conversation avoiding mention of the pink
elephant trumpeting in the middle of the room. The
pink elephant would be my defection to Georgia. When I
telephoned with the news of my imminent relocation my father
asked, "Georgia, as in the Republic of Georgia by the Black
Sea, or Georgia as in the Peach State?" He hoped I meant the
former because that Georgia promised unique opportunities to
advance the democratic cause of justice. What could Georgia,
former land of the Confederacy, offer?
Convicting arsonists and thieves in Macon, Georgia, was
never Harvard Law grad Natalie Goldberg's dream. The pay is
abysmal, the work is exhausting, and the humidity is hell
for a woman with curly hair. But when a steamy romance with
her high-powered New York boss went bad, Natalie jumped at
the first job offered, packed her bags, and headed south.
Natalie's leftist Yankee background brands her a
conspicuous outsider in this insular community. Her father,
a famous civil rights lawyer, refuses to accept her career
change—or talk to her. Her best friend begs her to come back
home, and Natalie keeps thinking she sees her former lover
everywhere. But Natalie's not completely alone.
There are a garden-obsessed neighbor, a former beauty
queen-turned-defense attorney, and a handsome colleague who
has a nervous tic whenever she gets near. And then there's a
capital case that has her eating antacids by the truckload.
Yep, it's going to be one heckuva long, hot summer.
. . .
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