The Scandalous Summer of Sissy LeBlanc

The Southern Belle's Handbook: Sissy LeBlanc's Rules to Live By

Author: Loraine Despres

Rule Number Forty-eight of The Southern Belle’s Handbook might state that ‘°a proper southern belle never lets on how bored she is,” but it’s the summer of 1956 and Sissy LeBlanc simply can’t help herself. She’s been living in stifling old Gentry, Louisiana, since she was born, a trapped in a sham of a marriage to PeeWee LeBlanc — who, to be perfectly honest, makes 1 skin….Read More

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