Binding: Paperback
Description: Today is Monday. The calls do not come as before. Weeks elapse between them and when I answer the phone there is no overlap of voices only my mother's. She spends much of the conversation avoiding mention of the pink elephant trumpeting in the middle of the room. The pink elephant would be my defection to Georgia. When I telephoned with the news of my imminent relocation my father asked " Georgia as in the Republic of Georgia by the Black Sea or Georgia as in the Peach State?" He hoped I meant the former because that Georgia promised unique opportunities to advance the democratic cause of justice. What could Georgia former land of the Confederacy offer? Convicting arsonists and thieves in Macon Georgia was never Harvard Law grad Natalie Goldberg's dream. The pay is abysmal the work is exhausting and the humidity is hell for a woman with curly hair. But when a steamy romance with her high - powered New York boss went bad Natalie jumped at the first job offered packed her bags and headed south. Natalie's leftist Yankee background brands her a conspicuous outsider in this insular community. Her father a famous civil rights lawyer refuses to accept her career change or talk to her. Her best friend begs her to come back home and Natalie keeps thinking she sees her former lover everywhere. But Natalie's not completely alone. There are a garden - obsessed neighbor a former beauty queen turned defense attorney and a handsome colleague who has a nervous tic whenever she gets near. And then there's a capital case that has her eating antacids by the truckload. Yep it's going to be one heckuva long hot summer .
Title: My Summer Of Southern Discomfort A Novel
Author(s): Gayle Stephanie
Publisher: Harpercollins
Barcode: 9780061236310
Pages: 256 Pages
Language: English
Publication Date: 5/6/2008