Review: The oddest of odd couples
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 05 22, 2014
The widowed Marfa and her mother-in-law Lulu certainly made an odd couple, but in the mobile home park they lived in, they were relatively normal compared to the whackos around them. And despite their constant bickering and inane arguments, in the end the two women had a sort of grudging respect for each other. Set in 1994, "Old Girls in Low Cotton" depicts life in the Downy Mount Mobile Home Park in Louisiana. The story's high point was the Valentine's Day party put on for the residents by the park's managers, the tyrannical Don Ella Huff and her husband Smiley. Marfa and Lulu attended only because attendance was mandatory, but they ran afoul of Don Ella's strict rules for partygoers, and things went rapidly downhill from there.It's a funny story filled with some memorably weird characters, and I enjoyed reading it very much.