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Reviewed on August 1, 1991
Novels about the South used to have a monopoly on squirrely characters with quirky names playing out oddball slices of life (e.g., Sarah Gilbert, Sarah Bird, early Rita Mae Brown), but this first novel takes place in Los Angeles and still has a character named Jambalaya Orleans (J.O. for short, and she's not even Southern, just conceived there!) h...Log In or Sign Up to Read More


