Southern Serendipity

<p>Many people might assume that growing up in a town with less than three hundred residents would be quite dull and uneventful. But for author Tina Rye Sloan growing up in tiny Detroit Alabama was anything but boring.</p><p>In her delightful memoir <I>Southern Serendipity</I> Sloan shares some rather entertaining and almost unbelievable accounts of life in the Deep South. From discovering numerous mischievous uses for dish soap to miraculously surviving a slide off the tin roof of a barn-propelled by a slick coating of baby oil-Sloan provides a look at the rich upbringing she was fortunate to have despite her family's poverty. <I>Southern Serendipity</I> also offers a glimpse into Southern small-town life during the late 1960s 1970s and early 1980s. Sloan inadvertently yet artfully describes many facets of Southern culture from colloquialisms to gardening to education. </p><p>The collection of heartwarming stories in <I>Southern Serendipity</I> is based around several families whose lives in this small Southern town were woven together like strong colorful threads in a tapestry.</p>