Review: Wasn't sure I would like it...
Rating: 4 out of 5
Date: 04 25, 2014
I had a hard time with the West Virginia twang of Phoebe Hawley.  The story has Phoebe, her sister Maydean and brother Willie-Boy in the bayou of Louisiana.  She's from Cottonwood, WV and is here trying to find a job and a place to live so she can bring Ma, Pa and older sister Erlene there.  But first a mishap happens when she accidentally backs her truck into GG Morgan's vehicle.  She tries to put the blame on him, however, he sees right thru her.  He helps her unhook their bumpers, and then takes her bumper for ransom when she can't come up with $70, the cost of fixing his bumper.  No amount of cajoling with Morgan does she get it back.  On her way she's stopped by the Sheriff because her license plate is missing cause it was attached to the bumper.  She comes up with a story of being cousins to Morgan, and the Sheriff leads her to his junkyard.  Willie-Boy has an asthma attack and Gage finds his home slowly being taken over by Phoebe.  Gage comes to admire the way she attacks everything she does.  She finds a job so she can slowly pay Gage back cause if she pays him off right away he'll make her leave.  His first marriage ended badly but he has a daughter, and so he's hostile at first, but Phoebe wins him over and while getting herself immersed there she writes Ma to come on down.  Once Phoebe realizes they are coming, she has to convince him she's fallen for him, and hopefully he with her cause she needs to tell him her parents are due to arrive.