Book Description
The beloved Fannie Flagg is back and at her irresistible and hilarious best in
I Still Dream About You, a comic mystery romp through the streets of Birmingham, Alabama, past, present, and future.
Meet
Maggie Fortenberry, a still beautiful former Miss Alabama. To others,
Maggie’s life seems practically perfect—she’s lovely, charming, and a
successful real estate agent at Red Mountain Realty. Still, Maggie can’t
help but wonder how she wound up in her present condition. She had been
on her hopeful way to becoming Miss America and realizing her childhood
dream of someday living in one of the elegant old homes on top of Red
Mountain, with the adoring husband and the 2.5 children, but then
something unexpected happened and changed everything.
Maggie
graduated at the top of her class at charm school, can fold a napkin in
more than forty-eight different ways, and can enter and exit a car
gracefully, but all the finesse in the world cannot help her now. Since
the legendary real estate dynamo Hazel Whisenknott, beloved founder of
Red Mountain Realty, died five years ago, business has gone from bad to
worse—and the future isn’t looking much better. But just when things
seem completely hopeless, Maggie suddenly comes up with the perfect plan
to solve it all.
As Maggie prepares to put her plan into action,
we meet the cast of high-spirited characters around her. To Brenda
Peoples, Maggie’s best friend and real estate partner, Maggie’s life
seems easy as pie. Slender Maggie doesn’t have to worry about her
figure, or about her Weight Watchers sponsor catching her at the Krispy
Kreme doughnut shop. And Ethel Clipp, Red Mountain’s ancient and grumpy
office manager with the bright purple hair, thinks the world of Maggie
but has absolutely nothing nice to say about their rival Babs “The Beast
of Birmingham” Bingington, the unscrupulous estate agent who hates
Maggie and is determined to put her out of business.
Maggie has
heartbreaking secrets in her past, but through a strange turn of events,
she soon discovers, quite by accident, that everybody, it seems—dead or
alive—has at least one little secret.
I Still Dream About You
is a wonderful novel that is equal parts Southern charm, murder
mystery, and that perfect combination of comedy and old-fashioned wisdom
that can be served up only by America’s own remarkable Fannie Flagg.
