American Pie - by Michael Lee West (Paperback)

About the Book

Acclaimed for her uniquely colorful Southern voice, the author of "She Flew the Coop" and "Crazy Ladies" broadens her horizons with a tale of three sisters. Freddie gladly left her past and the South far behind and has never looked back, while her sisters Eleanor and Jo-Nell stayed in tiny Tallulah, Tennessee. When a freak accident brings all three together, they are forced to confront their histories, futures, and one another.

Book Synopsis

Acclaim for Michael Lee West

"American Pie"

"Colorful, larger-than-life characters strut and stew with zest across an equally colorful terrain..."
-- "Kirkus Review"

" "American Pie" is delicious, literary treat...Well worth reading for both the humor and poignancy it portrays."
-- "The Nashville Tennessean"

"West is a major talent, and "American Pie" serves as proof...West's writing is a 'Discovery Channel' for and about people."
-- "Nashville Life"

I>She Flew The Coop"

"The author of the acclaimed "Crazy Ladies" has captured the color, eccentricities and tragicomedy that the best Southern writers do so well."
-- "Publishers Weekly, " starred review

"Funny, irreverent."
-- "New York Times Book Review"

"West has created characters who are so teeming with life you would have to stand back to create some breathing room if you met them."
-- "Washington Post Book World"

"Crazy Ladies"

"Not since Flannery O'Connor's first book has a debt by a young Southerner been so filled with wry humor and humanity, so precisely right in its idioms, and so distinctive in its voices."
-- "St. Petersburg Times"

From the Back Cover

The lives of the three McBroom sisters of Tallulah, Tennessee, were tangled before the eldest, Eleanor, discovered their mother hanging from the Venetian blinds—and the years have done little to comb out the knots. Now a drunken encounter with the midnight train has left brash, much-married Jo-Nell near death, compelling agoraphobic Eleanor to summon marine biologist Freddie home from California—where she fled after being expelled from med school following a daring gall bladder heist. At last the McBroom sisters are together again, to face old fears and new catastrophes as they cheerfully deflect every flaming arrow that outrageous fortune fires their way.

With wit and loving compassion, Michael Lee West introduces us to an indomitable family of eccentric survivors in an unforgettable novel of cruel fate, bad luck, and unassailable resiliency.