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Fannie Flagg's "Under the Rainbow"
Book Review
by: Ann Marie
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Fannie Flagg, author of "Fried Green Tomatoes" has
written several, very humorous and endearing stories, with colorful and
lovable characters in all. This book focuses on Neighbor Dorothy, "the lady
with the smile in her voice," whose daily radio broadcasts keep her 1940s
town delightfully informed on all the local news, through the current
decade... and includes all the folks in her town. She is so simple, home
grown, and bursting with care and love for everyone in the world. Makes
readers wish she was real, and working in their town.
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Bobby, her ten-year-old
son, is destined to live a thousand lives, most of them in his imagination;
Norma and Macky Warren and their cranky ninety-eight-year-old Aunt Elner.
Then there is Tot Whooten, the beautician whose luck is as bad as her
hairdressing skills; Beatrice Woods, the Little Blind Songbird; Cecil Figgs,
the Funeral King; and the fabulous Minnie Oatman, lead vocalist of the
Oatman Family Gospel Singers. The town is Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where
the biggest claim to fame is being the geographic center of the United
States.
Fannie Flagg writes a story of rich, human characters, the saving graces of
small-town life, and the daily struggle of silliness and tears. It's a
wonderful ensemble cast and hours of immersion into times of war, peace,
prosperity, sadness, and recovery.
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