REVISED: Like "Fried Green Tomatoes," this novella explores two young women misjudged and mistreated by the edgy residents of a small Southern town. By turns hilarious and sad, Daph and Normal, who is anything but, fight back after Normal the newcomer is treated like a freak. Which she is, till you get to know her. Shortly after the Twin Towers in New York were bombed, tough beauty-queen Daph befriends Normal who has jumped from a chicken truck near the store where Daph works, and the rural war on terriorism begins in earnest.
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