Ballantine
September 2005
On Sale: September 13, 2005
Featuring: Daisy Fay Harper
336 pages ISBN: 0345485602 EAN: 9780345485601 Paperback (reprint) Add to Wish List
In Fannie Flaggβs high-spirited first novel, we meet Daisy Fay Harper in the spring of 1952, where sheβs βnot doing much except sitting around waiting for the sixth grade.β
When she leaves Shell Beach, Mississippi, in September 1959, she is packed up and ready for the Miss America Pageant, vowing βI wonβt come back until Iβm somebody.β But in our hearts she already is.
Sassy and irreverent from the get-go, Daisy Fay takes us on a rollicking journey through her formative years on the Gulf Coast of Mississippi. There, at The End of the Road of the South, the family malt shop freezer holds unspeakable things, society maven Mrs. Dot hosts Junior Debutante meetings and shares inspired thoughts for the week (such as βsincerity is as valuable as radiumβ), and Daisy Fayβs Daddy hatches a quick-cash scheme that involves resurrecting his daughter from the dead in a carefully orchestrated miracle. Along the way, Daisy Fay does a lot of growing up, emerging as one of the most hilarious, appealing, and prized characters in modern fiction.
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