Troublesome Creek

Like "Fried Green Tomatoes," this short novel explores a town's misjudgmentof two spirited young women who are doing the best they can till they can do better. Following 9-11,2001, the residents of this small Georgia town are edgy and eager to lay blame, suspicious of newcomers, then out pops a girl named "Normal" from a chicken truck enroute to Fla. Daph, always for the underdog, takes Normal in.