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Yankee Doodle Dixie

by Lisa Patton
Thomas Dunne: St. Martin's. Sept. 2011. c.320p. ISBN 9780312556938. $24.99. F
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Leelee Satterfield is back in this follow-up to Whistlin' Dixie in a Nor'easter. The action picks up right where the previous book left off, with Leelee on her way back to Memphis—missing the man she left in Vermont, but happy to be returning to her best friends and her hometown. With the help of those friends and the motherly care of Kissie, the woman who raised her, Leelee meets the challenge of single motherhood head on. She quickly makes a home for herself and her two daughters and finds work at a local radio station. It isn't long before Leelee gets involved with a famous rock star who turns out to be a narcissist just like her ex-husband. Can she break out of her pattern of living to please others and find a way to move her Yankee boyfriend down to Dixie?
VERDICT Filled with Southern charm and eccentric characters, this eagerly awaited sequel is sure to please fans of the author's first novel as well as fans of women's fiction writers like Adriana Trigiani and Fannie Flagg. [Four-city tour; see Prepub Alert, 2/21/11.]
Reviewed by Karen Core, Detroit P.L. , Aug 01, 2011
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