Crazy Ladies

Author: Michael Lee West

Rebecca Wells’s Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood is rivaled by a fictional sibling: Michael Lee West’s Crazy Ladies. West’s tale of wild women down South is faster and snappier than Wells’s thick bayou prose gumbo, but it has some of the same virtues–a cast of wacky characters, lively regional dialogue, and a satisfying multigenerational time frame. The scene shifts….Read More

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