World of Pies: A Novel
by By Stolz, Karen
Category: Fiction , General

In a small town in Texas in the 1960s, young Roxanne journeys toward adulthood as he copes with a pie-baking contest that becomes a lesson in racial politics, a crush on the new female postal worker, and the death of her father and her mother's remarriage, in a debut novel that features recipes following each chapter. 60,000 first printing. $100,000 ad/promo. Lit Guild & Doubleday.