I've talked about this before, but every summer my entire family goes on vacation, and the object is to relax on the beach for an entire week. He broke her heart and made her leave town-can she risk her heart again?Īt least she has a new job-sure it's cooking last meals for death row inmates but at least they don't complain!īut when secrets from the past emerge, will Queenie be able to stick by her family or will she leave home again? A fun-filled, touching story of food, football, and fooling around. Who knew that people in small town Texas had such long memories? And of course Queenie wishes that her memory were a little spottier when feelings for her high school love, Everett Coburn, resurface. And her sister, who as a teenager was branded as a gold-digging harlot after having a baby with local golden boy Wes McKay, is now the mother of the captain of the high school football team. It's been years since her mother-notorious for stealing your man, your car, and your rent money-was killed. Maybe her family's reputation as those Wake women will have been forgotten. She can hope, maybe things will be different. Now the only place she has to go is home to North Star.

Queenie Wake, a country girl from North Star, Texas, has just been fired from her job as a chef for not allowing a customer to use ketchup. Summary: A brilliant, hilarious, and touching story with a Texas twist from Liza Palmer, author of Conversations With The Fat Girl (optioned for HBO)

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