Title: Bayou Heat
Author: Suzanne Jenkins
Date: 2023
Quote: "Do you think you're the only woman who's ever lost a baby?"
Maggie doesn't think that. She just feels miserable. She and two friends, earthy Catholic women, well off, were going to "have our girls together," and then Maggie's baby girl didn't live. How she gets through the depression--finding a dead body, discovering that the body came from a whole neighborhood stuck in post-hurricane poverty, working to help individuals in that neighborhood--makes a short, goodhearted, very "adult" read.
Trigger warnings: stillborn baby, adultery, murder, an autopsy that finds a fetus in the body. Also, when helpful well-off people observe the kind of overpriced junkfood people in the poor neighborhood eat, they do some ritual wailing and then start eating chicken nuggets and cupcakes too.
Definitely not a good choice for sharing with the children, this novel just might be a good choice for sharing with a teenager who thinks she's "in love with" someone else's husband. What wholesome stories about Nice Girls who instantly lose interest in a man upon finding out that he's married have failed to do, this one might accomplish.
No comments:
Post a Comment