The Wife Upstairs
Quotes from the Book
You have to coddle menfolks on account of their pride.
You can't see reality. You never could: You just distort the truth until you end up with a version you can live with.
There is nothing harder than being your own rock.
There is a sneakiness about girls that they keep hid under sweetness and pouting and crying.
But it comes to me that two wrongs don't make another wrong.
There is something soothing about working in the yard. Planting seeds and seeing them poke green out of the dirt. And it gets you out of the house with out going too far.
You not trapped girl. Not unless you nailed to the floor.
I wondered if small town people became smaller in order to fit. Perhaps they had to.
I should not have lied, but I did. Later, those lies came back to haunt me, bread cast on the water, tenfold.
Lord, I don't understand it, but when a person does something wrong, it never feels wrong until later. It's never as evil as you'd imagined.
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About Michael Lee West
About the book
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From the author of Mad Girls in Love comes this lively multigenerational tale of six charming, unforgettable Southern women -- a novel of love and laughter, pain and redemption.
Though she was born in Tennessee, Miss Gussie is no country fool. A woman who can handle any situation, she has her hands full with two headstrong daughters who happen to be complete opposites -- dour Dorothy and sweet Clancy Jane.
Hoping money will heal childhood wounds, Dorothy marries the owner of a five-and-dime, while Clancy Jane gets into a mess of trouble, running off with a randy tomcat who pumps gas at the Esso stand.
And then there are Gussie's granddaughters, the smart but plain Violet and fancy-talking Bitsy -- a new generation whose lives will reflect a nation's tumultuous times.
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Book details
- First published
- 1990
- Author
- Michael Lee West
- Genre
- Fiction
- Goodreads rating
- 3.84 (4k ratings)
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