Eat, Drink, and Be from Mississippi

Truely Noonan is the quintessential Southern boy made good. Like his older sister, Courtney, Truely left behind the slow, sweet life of Mississippi for jet-set San Francisco, where he earned a fortune as an Internet entrepreneur. Courtney and Truely each find happy marriages -- until, as if cursed by success, those marriages start to crumble.

Then their lives are interrupted by an unexpected stranger: a troubled teenager named Arnold, garrulous, charming, thuggishly dressed, and determined to move in to their world. Arnold turns their lives upside down, and in the process this unlikely trio becomes the family that each had been searching for. In the best Southern fiction tradition, Kincaid has brought us an inspiring story about finding the way home.

Author: Nanci Kincaid
Publisher: Little Brown and Company
Published: 01/06/2009
Pages: 400
Binding Type: Hardcover
Weight: 1.10lbs
Size: 8.30h x 5.70w x 1.30d
ISBN: 9780316009157

Review Citation(s):
Kirkus Reviews 11/01/2008 pg. 1133
Publishers Weekly 11/17/2008 pg. 41
Library Journal 12/15/2008 pg. 113
People Weekly 01/12/2009 pg. 43
Entertainment Weekly 01/23/2009 pg. 65
BookPage 01/01/2009

About the Author
Nanci Kincaid is the author of Crossing Blood, Balls, Pretending the Bed Is a Raft (made into the feature film My Life Without Me), Verbena, and As Hot as it Was You Ought to Thank Me.She divides her time between San Jose and Honolulu.