Quite a Year for Plums

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Anyone who has read the bestselling Mama Makes Up Her Mind or listened to Bailey White's commentaries on NPR knows that she is a storyteller of inimitable wit and charm.  Now, in her stunningly accomplished first novel, she introduces us to the peculiar yet lovable people who inhabit a small town in south Georgia.  Meet serious, studious Roger, the peanut pathologist and unlikely love object of half the town's women.  Meet Roger's ex-mother-in-law, Louise, who teams up with an ardent typographer in an attempt to attract outer-space invaders with specific combinations of letters and number.  And meet Della, the bird artist who captivates Roger with the sensible but enigmatic notes she leaves on things she throws away at the Dumpster ("This fan works, but it makes a clicking sound and will not oscillate").

Bailey White lives in south Georgia.  She is the author of the national bestsellers Mama Makes Up Her Mind and Sleeping at the Starlight Motel.  She is also a regular commentator on National Public Radio's All Things Considered.