Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting
hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri,
where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of the high-spirited
Elner Shimfissle inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: “What is
life all about, anyway?”
It’s the strangest thing. One minute Elner is up in her tree, picking figs,
and the next thing she knows she is off on an adventure she never dreamed
of, running into people she never in a million years expected to meet.
Meanwhile, back in Elmwood Springs, Elner’s high-strung niece Norma faints
and winds up in bed with a cold cloth on her head; Elner’s neighbor Verbena
rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs,
runs his eighteen-wheeler into a ditch; and the entire town is thrown for a
loop.
In this comedy-mystery, those near and dear to Elner discover something
wonderful – and so will Fannie Flagg’s lucky readers.
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