Judy (USA: TX) (2007/04/19): If you like to read about "southerners", you'll love this book. At thirty-eight, Jessie Maddox has a comfortable life in Glenville, Georgia, with the most reponsible husband in the world. But after the storybook romance, "happily ever after" never came. Now Jessie is left to wonder: Why can't she stop picturing herself as the perfect grieving widow? As Jessie dives headlong into her midlife crisis, she is joined by a colorful cast of eccentrics. There's her best friend Donna, who is having a wild adulterous affair with a younger man: Wanda McNabb, the sweet-natured grandmother who is charged with killing her husband; Jessie's younger sister Ellen, who was born to be a guest on Jerry Springer; their mother, who persistently corsses the dirty words out of library books; and of course, the stuffed green headless duck.
