They Say She Tastes Like Honey: A Novel - Softcover

Sawyer, Michelle

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1555838111 ISBN 13: 9781555838119

Publisher: Alyson Books, 2003

Synopsis

Ohio was hardly ready for its prized Piqua Peach Queen to come bopping out of the closet, so in her early 20s Macy Delongchamp moved to Greenwich Village and started her own successful travel agency. But Macy is now in her early 40s (or late 30s, depending on whom she's talking to) and finds herself adrift in her own seemingly charmed life. First, there are the nightmares, then the nagging cough, and finally, after yet another night of tequila swigging, she trips down a flight of stairs and finds herself hobbling the streets of Manhattan with the aid of a cane fashioned from a petrified bull penis. That actually comes in handy, though, because there is nothing like a petrified bull penis to beat off a mugger, which is how she ends up using it when she comes to the aid of young, badly dressed belle on roller skates named Sarah--and falls in love with her. But is Macy ready to embrace the kind of life she has spent years avoiding and making fun of? Before she has time to find out, the death of her father, "Wild" Bill Delongchamp, pulls her back to Ohio, where the events and people of her past run headlong into the new Macy of good times, uncommitted relationships, and globe-trotting adventures. In bawdy, hilarious style we follow Macy through one self-induced misadventure after another on her path to realizing that she has been running from herself and home has always been waiting.

Michelle Sawyer was born and continues to live in Jackson, Mich. This is her first novel.

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About the Author:

Michelle Sawyer is the author of They Say She Tastes Like Honey. She target shoots in her spare time, loves gorillas and the color red, and prays to Joan Crawford. She lives with her two beautiful and incredibly affectionate Rottweilers, Carly and Clee in

From Booklist:

Fortysomething Macy is a rich, beautifully dressed, sought-after Sigourney Weaver look-alike who packages lesbian cruises for those who can afford them and enjoy her. She works too hard, drinks too much (despite serious asthma and declining health), and grieves the imminent loss of her longtime best friend to liver cancer. Nothing prepares Macy for how she feels when a much younger, badly dressed woman she rescues from a mugger quickly becomes integral to her life, caring for her with a sweetness and tenderness that rock her to the core. Will Faith restore the elegantly slutty Macy's faith in the possibility of a committed relationship, a family? Sawyer's delicious novel makes one laugh out loud at one moment, go teary with pity the next, as Macy presses forward, at long last, on the hard road to adulthood. And when they must leave her, many readers will yearn for a follow-up to Sawyer's delightful debut. Whitney Scott
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About this edition

• Publisher: Alyson Books
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1555838111
• ISBN 13: 9781555838119
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 264