Waking Up in Dixie: A Novel

From the New York Times best-selling author of The Red Hat Club comes a hilarious story of marriage and love and second chances.. When Elizabeth Mooney escaped the shame of her white trash family to marry Howell Whittington the crown prince of her small town she never dreamed that thirty years later shed end up trapped in a loveless marriage to the cruel banker whos foreclosing on all her friends. Then Howe has a stroke in church and when he wakes up hes at the mercy of all his appetites and emotions telling the truth with no filters. Transformed Howe wants to be a real husband which scares the socks off proper repressed Elizabeth. Setting out to right past wrongs Howe blackmails the towns baddies into doing the right thing. The ensuing hilarious roller-coaster ride wakes up not only Elizabeth and their marriage but the whole town and its hidebound institutions. Haywood Smiths sharp wit and keen observations about men mothers-in-law marriage and small-town Southern living will having you laughing and reading long into the night.