Georgia Bottoms: A Novel
by By Childress, Mark
Category: Literary Collections , American , General

From the Author of Crazy in Alabama and One Mississippi Comes a Sharp-Edged New Comedy about a Southern Socialite with a Drawerful of Surprising Secrets.GEORGIA BOTTOMS may be Six Points, Alabama's finest feature --- beautiful, worldly, a splendid cook and faithful churchgoer who cares for her aged mother and sells handmade quilts to her grateful neighbors.Georgia also has a discreet side business, "entertaining" six local gentlemen at night. Judge Barnett on Sundays, Sheriff Allred on Fridays, the doctor on Wednesdays (Mondays are Georgia's own). Each gentleman gets a night tailored to his particular tastes, each has been trained to leave a "gift" to help Georgia get by, and each one thinks he is Georgia's only secret lover.When Preacher Eugene Hendrix (Saturdays) decides he must confess their affair in front of his wife and the entire congregation, Georgia may be able to stop him in time. But one pin pulled out of her elaborately protected life may be all it takes to send the whole structure to hell in a hurry. Chin high, posture perfect, her Chanel handbag tucked firmly under her arm, Georgia sets out to save herself, her mama, and her particular notion of virtue from total ruin. Nothing in Six Points will ever be the same.Written with hilarity, insight, and affection for the many failings of man- and womankind, Georgia Bottoms plumbs the irrepressible workings of the rebellious human heart. It is proof anew of why Stephen King called Childress's previous novel, One Mississippi, the "funniest novel I have read in ten years!"