SUMMARY:
"Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like ride with boys in pickup trucks.)
But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind.
When life's complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia"- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best.Girls in Trucks introduces an irresistible, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent."
But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and rarefied world they've left behind.
When life's complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia"- and to see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who know you best.Girls in Trucks introduces an irresistible, sweet, and wise voice that heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent."
REVIEW
I enjoyed this book for the most part. It was a quick read and was entertaining. However, the narrating style was inconsistent and kept changing which would sometimes throw me off. Chapters skipped around in time, which was confusing, and important events weren't always explained, such as her sister marriages and her friend Charlotte's Heroin problem. The main character, Sarah Walters wasn't really likable, she was pessimistic and pretty pathetic and I kept waiting for her to change but it never happened. If she had, then this could have been a great coming of age story. The one thing that saved this book was the wit. The writer was very witty and it made the book entertaining, if nothing else.
P.S. Sorry, my first two reviews are so negative. I really usually like my reading material.
P.S. Sorry, my first two reviews are so negative. I really usually like my reading material.
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