Belle of the Bayou
165 pages
|Published: 1 Jan 1998
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ISBN: 9781930709171
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Publisher: Hawk Pub Group
Publication date: 28 July 2000
Description
Published in Canada to tremendous acclaim, this richly imagined comic fable takes Arabella Slominski Boot on an odyssey to Lafayette, Louisiana in search of herself. Arabella is married to Roman Boot, a man who wears Listermint as cologne and thinks foreplay is a golf term. After catching him in flagrante delicto with her best friend on her fourtieth brithday, Arabella packs her car and heads south to join Melba, a woman who ranks high on the list of literature's most unbearable mothers. Arabella struggles to find independence surrounded by eccentrics–a Harley-Davidson riding palm reader, a sexy seventy-year old jazz musician, a gun-toting hitchhiker, and a karate instructor stalker, just to name a few–in this endearing coming-of-middle-age novel.
