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  • Aunt Sookie & Me: The Sordid Tale of a Scandalous Southern Belle

  • By: Michael Scott Garvin
  • Narrated by: Angie Hickman
  • Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
  • 4.4 out of 5 stars (183 ratings)

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Aunt Sookie & Me: The Sordid Tale of a Scandalous Southern Belle

By: Michael Scott Garvin
Narrated by: Angie Hickman
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Publishers Weekly Booklife Finalist

Indie Brag Award Winner

Pinnacle Book Award Winner

Shelf Unbound Notable 100 Books

BIBA Star Award

Book Excellence Award Winner

Golden Crown Winner

Winner of The Beverly Hills Book Awards

Winner of The Royal Dragonfly Awards

New York Book Festival Finalist

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Young Poppy Wainwright feels much like a deck of cards, shuffled around from a boozing mother to a beloved grandmother. Finally bussed to Savannah, Georgia, to live with her grandmother's cantankerous sister, Sookie. Through the enlightened eyes of a 13-year-old girl, the hilarity and insanity ensues.

From the best-selling author of A Faithful Son comes this rollicking romp of a ride that does not disappoint.

Aunt Sookie & Me: The Sordid Tale of a Scandalous Southern Belle is irreverent, hilarious, and heartbreaking. All political correctness is buried alongside the dead corpse in the family vegetable garden in this riotous book. But don't let the folksy and fresh recipe fool you, Garvin serves up a big helping of reality, cutting through small-town bigotry and bias.

"Aunt Sookie & Me is a heady and hilarious mixture of hard-won wisdom and Southern saltiness...the take deals with some weighty issues including sexual identity and domestic violence, but Garvin's compassion and light touch make this a highly entertaining and enjoyable novel." (Publishers Weekly)

©2017 Michael Scott Garvin (P)2018 Michael Scott Garvin
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Southern Lit at Its' Best

Warm, beautiful, heartbreaking, this story touches all emotions. It is everything a good book should be, a best friend, something you do not want to end.

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Beautifully written

I really enjoyed this book. Beautifully written and heartfelt. The narrator was also excellent. I fell in love with Poppy and hope for a follow up book!

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Love this book!

I laughed out loud and cried a few tears. This book is excellent.
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Brilliant

Couldn’t stop laughing at Aunt Sookie. My feelings were all over the place with the story line. This was recommended by my older sister and I loved all the characters as much as she did. Big thumbs up!

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Scandalously awesome!!

This is such an entertaining story. The story has multiple female characters with the lead of Poppy Wainwright. The story is so entertaining with so many funny parts causing me to giggle out loud. Of course there are also some very sad parts but that makes the story even better. The narrator Angie Hickman just hits it out of the park. She changes her voice for every character and you actually feel like there are multiple people narrating. Listen to this book!

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Ms Hickman did a fantastic job

Angie Hickman hit it out of the ballpark with Garvin's novel. She captured each of the different zany characters.

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The vocal delivery of the reader is excellent, seems perfectly matched to the story and characters.

This is a charming story that warms my sense of nostalgia for neighborhood life and late childhood awareness of the world. A story well told and well performed.

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Great narrator and story!

An absolute gem to listen to! Two thumbs all the way up! Sassy, sweet and very southern!

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wow

Best book I have listened to in years. There are no words to describe how wonderful I felt during this performance...

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Not just a southern dramady

So many laughs and even more reminders that people can be cruel. But love and understanding are bountiful.

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