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The Cotton Queen |
Author: Pamela Morsi
Published: 2006-02-01 |
List price: $12.95
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Customer comments on this selection.
 Typical Mother-Daughter Book
Don't get me wrong. I love reading about mother-daughter relationships and all the complicatedness that goes in between women. This is just another typical book ~~ very entertaining though, but doesn't offer any new insights or thoughts to relationships. If you like a good story, this would do. It is not the best fiction I have ever read nor did I expect it to be. It is just an entertaining story about a mother and a daughter, how they became the persons they are in the novel and how it concluded to "happily ever after." It is cute and endearing. It is definitely relatable (especially if you have a relationship with your mom or daughter).
Babs is the runner-up to the Cotton Queen in high school. She married the true love of her life ~~ a charming, all-American boy, who tragically died within a few years of their marriage. Struggling to raise her daughter alone after his funeral, she encountered a man who changed her life for the worse. However, she moves back to McKinnely and marries a former admirer, Acee. Their marriage was a sham from the beginning as Babs could never tell Acee her deepest secret. She wouldn't even admit it to herself.
Laney is Babs' daughter. She was forced to endure the trauma of being a Cotton Queen but as soon as she could, she escaped the little town and headed to Houston for college. There Laney tried to build upon her dreams and build a career in the 80s. She falls in love and marries, only to have everything taken away from her. She returns home to McKinley and finds happiness there.
This novel explores their relationship with one another ~~ Babs wanting nothing more than to protect Laney for the evils of the world and Laney wanted nothing more than to be her own person. This book deals with that struggle as well as telling the stories of two strong women who finally forge a friendship with one another.
It is a quick read and entertaining ~~ but it is just another typical novel about mothers and daughters.
11/9/2007
 A page turner
A story about the relationship between mothers and daughters, life in the South (Texas in particular) - very well written and true to life. I could not read it fast enough ...
 Too disturbing
They advise writers to get their character up in a tree and then throw rocks at her. In this book there are too many rocks for my comfort. I wasn't able to continue beyond the first few chapters, it upset me so.
Ms. Morsi scores again!
I have been reading Pamela Morsi's books for years,and she has NEVER written one I didn't like. This one is no exception! The story of a mother and daughter and their conflicts had me stopping every now and then and thinking of my own mother, and how I pulled away from her until I grew up and came to realize that no one ever could love me more than she does. Ms. Morsi moved me to laughter and tears with this one. I can't wait for her next book!
PHENOMENAL!!!
I couldn't put this book down!! I finished it in two day and that's with working 8 hours a day! The storyline is fantastic and it shows how people look at things differently. Both mother and daughter had such different points of view, yet were so much alike in other ways. I say HOORAY!! Read this for sure!!!!!
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