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Also by Michael Lee West:

Gone With A Handsomer Man, February 2012
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Gone With A Handsomer Man, April 2011
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Mermaids in the Basement, January 2008
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Mad Girls in Love, July 2006
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Crazy Ladies, July 2005
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Consuming Passions, April 2000
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American Pie, October 1997
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She Flew the Coop, May 1995
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SHE FLEW THE COOP
By: Michael Lee West

A Novel Concerning Life, Death, Sex and Recipes in Limoges, Louisiana

Harper
May 1995
On Sale: May 10, 1995
400 pages
ISBN: 0060926201
EAN: 9780060926205
Paperback
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Fiction

The two main occupations in Limoges, Louisiana (population: 905), seem to be spreading juicy gossip and consoling the unfortunate with casseroles. And in this early spring of 1952, there is ample opportunity for both—with sixteen-year-old and pregnant (by the Baptist minister) Olive Nepper, currently languishing in a coma after drinking pop laced with rose poison. But the plight of Olive and her family is hardly the only story spicing up the rumor mill in this small Southern community of unpredictable eccentrics, wandering husbands, and unsatisfied wives—and few local sins will be put right by home cooking.

From Michael Lee West comes a beautifully rendered portrait of small-town Southern life, filled with humanity that brilliantly weaves comedy with dark calamity.