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Title: Old Girls in Low Cotton
Author: Helen Childress
Narrator: Therese Plummer
Format: Unabridged
Length: 1 hr and 33 mins
Language: English
Release date: 02-10-15
Publisher: Audible Studios
Ratings: 4 of 5 out of 12 votes
Genres: Fiction, Short Stories & Anthologies
Publisher's Summary:
Somewhere people act normal - but not in the Downy Mount Mobile Home Park, where recently widowed Marfa Bacot lives with her mother-in-law, Lulu, who cleans from hell to breakfast and has her make-up tattooed on so she's always ready for the rapture.
As if it's not crazy enough inside the trailer, Marfa has to deal with the other eccentrics who populate the park, from the runaway polygs stockpiling water for the end of the world to the man who hears from extraterrestials through V8 cans to the domineering Don Ella, who runs the park with an iron fist and attendance-mandatory parties. Marfa dreams of a new life on her own outside Flagstaff, but first she'll have to let go of her old one.
Helen Childress wrote the movie Reality Bites. She is a seventh-generation Texan.
Members Reviews:
Ordinary People Hang Tough
Old Girls in Low Cotton is a short, compelling read about two women trying to make a life for themselves in a situation that is less than ideal. They are crowded, short of money, and short of patience with each other but will not give up the idea that life can be and will be full if they can hang on long enough to get through every day, every week and every challenge.
The prose is excellent. The author has narrative skills that allow her to tell her story wihtout the glue of profane language.
For readers who know that life is pretty much about routines, household highs like a good meal and household disasters like a hot water heater leak, this book is an affirmation that "life will find a way." It is well worth reading.
wonderful ...what there was of it
Helen Childress is a wonderful writer and has great characters. It is about 2 old women who live in a trailer park and try to live together in peace, but anyone knows 2 women cannot live in the same house. It was just getting interesting, then the book ended. I wished she had expanded on it.
fun to read
The story is about two women who shouldn't ever live together. Some how they manage to survive each other and support each other. I want more! Please continue this story.
Can people who buy books read? Reviews would suggest not.
This product is listed as a Kindle ___SINGLE____!! Do people even bother to read descriptions (it says estimated length = 42 pages!! in TWO PLACES on the product page) or understand terms?? Kindle SINGLE means SHORT STORY. I am so sick to death of Amazon reviews all over the place where people berate short stories for being SHORT STORIES. If you don't like SHORT STORIES, don't buy a SHORT STORY. And if you do, don't criticize a SHORT STORY for not being a NOVEL. It's not Amazon's fault or the author's fault that you can't be bothered to read the description of an item. One assumes that since you're buying something written that you are literate. But it would seem not. Short stories are a valid form of writing, just because Indie publishing has everyone thinking every NOVEL should only cost two bucks doesn't mean everything that costs two bucks is a novel. READ. THE. PRODUCT. DESCRIPTION.
I couldn't put it down
A very good read!! I am an avid reader and found this really entertaining and hilarious!! I love the characters, LuLu & Marfa!. I hope there is a sequel to this.