Her name is Priscilla Bell Posner Rondell, one of the
Tennessee Bells, a Southern family of some renown and good
standing. Her momma did her best to bring her up to be a
gentile Southern Lady but, much to her mother's chagrin,
Peach Rondell would just as soon be known as a good ol' down
to earth Southern gal. And what Peach wants, Peach usually gets!
In THE BOOK OF PEACH, author Penelope J. Stokes' sequel
to her bestselling novel Heartbreak Café, former
beauty queen Peach Rondell has plenty of opportunity to
renew and re-discover her sassy sense of independence and
flair for originality as she flees her broken marriage to
return home to Chulahatchie, Mississippi. Encouraged by her
psychiatrist to take time to find the person she truly is,
Peach takes to examining her past; scribbling away in a
journal, filling it full of memories and insights. But
nothing in years of therapy and counseling has prepared
Peach for the task of dealing with her momma on her home
territory.
Donna Bell Barclay Rondell is a force to reckon with and,
as a Southern mother, she is determined to see that her
children are a good reflection upon her. Peach's older
brother and sister have escaped their mother's scrutiny and
ire by moving thousands of miles away but, as the youngest,
Peach is still the target for her mother's expectations and
disappointments -- even at the age of 46. To escape her
mother's critical temperament, Peach takes to spending her
days at the Heartbreak Café, where she finds friendship and
love are as easy to acquire as a good cup of coffee,
and she is accepted for herself not her name. When tragedy
strikes, Peach soon finds those friendships will become even
more precious as she faces an uncertain future, safe in the
knowledge that she won't be alone -- her friends will be by
her side through thick and thin.
Twenty-three years ago, beauty queen Peach Rondell left
Mississippi and vowed never to return. Now she's back,
divorced and heartbroken, trying to figure out how her life
went so terribly wrong. To escape her mama's scrutinizing
gaze, she spends her days in a little storefront diner
called the Heartbreak Cafe, where, in the back booth, she
scribbles away in her journal, waiting for enlightenment.
Instead, Peach gets something even better: the unexpected
friendship of an unlikely group of folks who show Peach that
finding out where you're going usually means embracing where
you're from...
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