Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way Planners NAMED A BEST BOOK OF

NAMED A BEST BOOK OF THE YEAR SO FAR FOR 2024 BY THE NEW YORK TIMES BOOK REVIEW AND ATIME MUST-READ BOOK OF THE YEAR

and although the town bears the scars of its history

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their dislike for each other evolves into something quite different

Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way Planners NAMED A BEST BOOK OFMelissa Radketelevision star, podcaster, and bestselling author of Eat Cake. Be Bravewrites a love letter to the strong, opinionated Southern women who raised her and the women who surround each one of us. Lucy and Ethel. Laverne and Shirley. Dorothy and Sophia and Blanche and Rose. Its the women around us who make us who we are, and Chicken Fried Women is a celebration of them. Its about the women who raised us, made us, taught us to cook and clap