Kirsten Miller has that rare ability to take a serious subject and make it very, very funny. I enjoyed this novel and you will too.--James Patterson
The provocative and hilarious summer read that will have book lovers cheering and everyone talking! Kirsten Miller, author of The Change, brings us a bracing, wildly entertaining satire about a small Southern town, a pitched battle over banned books, and a little lending library that changes everything.
Beverly Underwood and her arch enemy, Lula Dean, live in the tiny town of Troy, Georgia, where they were born and raised. Now Beverly is on the school board, and Lula has become a local celebrity by embarking on mission to rid the public libraries of all inappropriate books none of which shes actually read.
To replace the pornographic books shes challenged at the local public library, Lula starts her own lending library in front of her home: a cute wooden hutch with glass doors and neat rows of the worthy literature that shes sure the towns readers need.
What Lula doesnt know is that a local troublemaker has stolen her wholesome books, removed their dust jackets, and restocked Lulas library with banned books: literary classics, gay romances, Black history, witchy spell books, Judy Blume novels, and more. One by one, neighbors who borrow books from Lula Deans library find their lives changed in unexpected ways. Finally, one of Lula Deans enemies discovers the library and decides to turn the tables on her, just as Lula and Beverly are running against each other to replace the towns disgraced mayor.
Thats when all the townspeople whove been borrowing from Lulas library begin to reveal themselves.
That's when the showdown thats been brewing between Beverly and Lula will roil the whole town...and change it forever.