Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, Paperback

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Steel Magnolias meets The Help in Beth Hoffman s New York Times bestselling Southern debut novel, Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt Twelve-year-old Cee Cee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her mother, Camille, the town s tiara-wearing, lipstick-smeared laughingstock, a woman who is trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen of Georgia. When tragedy strikes, Tootie Caldwell, Cee Cee s long-lost great-aunt, comes to the rescue and whisks her away to Savannah. There, Cee Cee is catapulted into a perfumed world of prosperity and Southern eccentricity one that appears to be run entirely by strong, wacky women. From the exotic Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in her backyard bathtub and uses garden slugs as her secret weapons; to Tootie's all-knowing housekeeper, Oletta Jones; to Violene Hobbs, who entertains a local police officer in her canary-yellow peignoir, the women of Gaston Street keep Cee Cee entertained and enthralled for an entire summer. A timeless coming of age novel set in the 1960s, Saving Cee Cee Honeycutt explores the indomitable strengths of female friendship, and charts the journey of an unforgettable girl who loses one mother, but finds many others in the storybook city of Savannah. As Kristin Hannah, author of Fly Away, says, Beth Hoffman's sparkling debut is packed full of Southern charm, strong women, wacky humor, and good old-fashioned heart.""