From award-winning author James Villas comes a warm,
witty, and poignant story of passion, friendship, and family
set against the lush, mellow backdrop of the South Carolina
Lowcountry.
Ella Dubose is a Southern lady of a
certain age-an age at which memories of youth can rush in at
every turn and overwhelm the present. But while Ella's two
younger children are concerned for her health and want to
limit her independence, Ella-elegant, unconventional, and
unrepentantly willful-has very different ideas. And she's
not about to be controlled by anyone, not when there are
tasks she needs to complete and loose ends that must be
tied.
The first step is to leave her family and take
a road trip back to the places where key chapters of her
life unfolded. Myrtle Beach has been overrun by theme
restaurants and ocean-front condos, but the Priscilla is
still the charming, shingled inn Ella remembers from visits
long ago. At the Priscilla, Ella and her companion, Goldie,
sip cocktails on the porch and dine on she-crab soup and
fried oysters while awaiting the arrival of Ella's oldest
son, Tyler, now a successful writer in New York. And there,
too, Ella meets a dashing, attentive gentleman who will help
her finally face her ghosts and determine which of the
secrets she has carried for so long must be shared, and
which are better left untold.
With its unforgettable
and instantly loveable heroine and evocative portrayal of
Southern life-past and present-Dancing in the Lowcountry is
a beguiling, beautifully rendered novel about the places and
people that stay with us, the courage it takes to live in
the present, and the endless ways life can surprise us, over
and over again.
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