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Chicken-Fried Women

Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way

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Chicken-Fried Women

By: Melissa Radke
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From the bestselling author of Eat Cake. Be Brave, a love letter to the strong, opinionated Southern women who raised her and surround us all.

Lucy and Ethel. Laverne and Shirley. Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche, and Rose. Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of them: the women who raised us, taught us to cook and clap back. The ones who prayed for us, raged at us and humbled us a notch or two when we needed it. These are the women who have encouraged us, teased us, chastised us, and mortified us. And as they fill up the seats around our table, we realize we wouldn’t have it any other way.

They’re our Chicken-Fried Women—battered on the outside, tender on the inside. Some are salty and a couple are Nashville Hot. Filled with a hilarious cast of larger-than life women, this book explores why no one messes with Southern women and their hair, why the whole family comes along when you go bra shopping, why true crime and aquarobics brings us together, and how faith shapes us through it all.

Insightful, big-hearted and laugh-out-loud funny, Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of friendship, kinship and the women who shaped us.

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Laughter through tears

I loved everything about this book. I recommend it for all women, you will love it.

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I LOVE listening to Melissa tell her stories.

I cried. I laughed out loud. I related to so many of the women talked about in this book. Thank you Melissa for another one of my favorite books!

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Southern to the Soul!

As a southerner I could relate to everything and everyone she references in her funny and uplifting book for women. Highly recommend.

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Such a sweet book!!

I loved all the stories about her chicken fried women! Very well done and will be sending this book to my girlfriends!!

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Laughter is good for our soul.

I laughed & cried. I was moved I am inspired. Relationships create the beauty in our lives. Melissa should also become a character’s voice in a movie.

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Hilarious Truths

Loved it from beginning to end! Had to get the audio version because Melissa’s delivery is an added bonus! Family, Jesus, Food, Hilarity.

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The author is real!

Reminded me of home, life and all the funnies as well as great women in my life.

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Relatable and so funny but feel good too

Funny stories and heartfelt life lessons. You will laugh, cry, and really think about the important women (and men) in your life.

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Laughed until I cried!!

This book is packed full of hilarious interactions between daughters, mothers, sisters and grandmothers! Not to mention the southern sayings from Granny herself! This story was read so well by Melissa, you felt like you were right there with her!! And she even made herself laugh out loud at some of the situations. Melissa Radke is an amazing story teller and I absolutely love that she narrates her own books!! Will listen to it again!!

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