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Folks

A West Texas Trilogy (Volume 1)

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Folks

By: Angie Katie O'Neill
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 Laugh out loud funny. If Fanny Flagg (Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe), Erma Bombeck (Family: The Ties that Bind and Gag) and Winston Groom (Forest Gump) make you laugh, Angie Katie O'Neill will have you in stitches with The Folks Series. Very Southern and a little naughty. "Folks" is a contemporary, historical novel that focuses on the Southwestern United States, primarily West Texas, from the turn of the 20th Century through the mid-1950's; with some contemporary flashbacks. Follow three quirky and dysfunctional generations of neighboring communities in Southwest Texas as they each survive the struggles and challenges that life in the 20th century presents them, in their own unique way. Retold through the eyes of the fourth generation, Avery Devereux, who announces to the entire community from the podium of the crowded, grade-school auditorium, "My name is Avery Devereux. I am the daughter of Orson and Katherine Devereux. We are descended from a long line of famous pirates and whores." Out of the mouths of babes unfolds a unique perspective on regional survival set against the backdrop of world history. Reminiscing through the eyes of her younger self, Avery Devereux recalls Grandma Jessie Belle, who caresses the velvet pouch that holds the diamond rings left to her by her five dead husbands and reminisces about her whoring days before she finally earned the job of "running the girls" as truck stop madame at Burnslove's Truck Stop. How she struggled through her career and lost her footing at the height of her success to a younger woman and then struggled to find her way back to a place of prominence in a new and unique way. Meet Grandma Opal who staved off the depression from a lifetime of bad and irrevocable choices by escaping into a world of pure fantasy. Avery reveals the lifetime of Grandma Opal's hopes, fears, and fantasies as they are revealed to her from beyond the grave. Follow Grandpa Amos and his son, Orson, as they pioneer cocaine trafficking from South America, through Mexico, and innovate, penetrating deep into the United States in the early 1950's. Follow Annabelle and Wayde Hardesty, pillars of West Texas ranching and oil aristocracy who strive to raise upstanding children and contribute to the production of a better community. Explore their strengths and weaknesses through the struggles they share as Annabelle discovers her husband is having an affair with Genevieve Devereux and that their only son is gay. Follow the drama as Grandmother Slayton and Genevieve scheme to get Genevieve married into the sort of money she is looking for by doing whatever she thinks she has to do to get it done. Explore the dysfunctional families as they strive for personal notoriety through society, publicity and religion. See what they gain, what they lose, and what price they are willing to pay. Reflecting on the early 20th century from the perspective of the 21st century, Avery Devereux follows the stories of the family told to her by Mama and transforms from a naive young girls into a fiery, independent, free-thinking, hard-working feminist. From the Author: "When I set out to write this series, I only set out to tell a funny yarn with a Southern flair. What I didn't expect was that the characters would take on lives of their own, and take me places I had not conceived of in my own conscious mind. In the end, I had a hysterically funny story, filled with characters and laughs. A story that men and women seem to find equal humor in. What I didn't expect was that the characters really had full lives and grew spiritually and intellectually as they evolved. Underneath the greater immorality of it, in spite of sometimes crude humor and political incorrectness, this is a story of people who struggle against whatever odds God may have given them who win when they accept the challenge. This is not a sappy story. It is crude, bold, honest, and funny." Biographical Fiction Genre Fiction Texas
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