Saving CeeCee Honeycutt
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Beth Hoffman
Read Beth Hoffman's blogs and other content on the Penguin Community.Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her psychotic mother, Camille-the tiara-toting, lipstick-smeared laughingstock of an entire town-a woman trapped in her long-ago moment of glory as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen. But when Camille is hit by a truck and killed, CeeCee is left to fend for herself. To the rescue comes her previously unknown great-aunt, Tootie Caldwell.In her vintage Packard convertible, Tootie whisks CeeCee away to Savannah's perfumed world of prosperity and Southern eccentricity, a world that seems to be run entirely by women. From the exotic Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in her backyard bathtub and uses garden slugs as her secret weapons, to Tootie's all-knowing housekeeper, Oletta Jones, to Violene Hobbs, who entertains a local police officer in her canary-yellow peignoir, the women of Gaston Street keep CeeCee entertained and enthralled for an entire summer. Laugh-out-loud funny and deeply touching, Beth Hoffman's sparkling debut is, as Kristin Hannah says, "packed full of Southern charm, strong women, wacky humor, and good old-fashioned heart." It is a novel that explores the indomitable strengths of female friendship and gives us the story of a young girl who loses one mother and finds many others.Watch a Video
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Author
Beth Hoffman
Pages
320
Publisher
Penguin
Published Date
2010-01-12
ISBN
1101189851 9781101189856
Ratings
Google: 5
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"Funny and heartwarming"
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Kelly
"I really enjoyed the part where CeeCee goes over to the neighbor's house and they toss slugs into the other neighbors backyard. It's been a little bit since I read the book so I can't remember the characters and I also don't want to provide too many spoilers but I thought that was hilarious!!"
"This book was funny at times and just showed so much character development, I don’t even know how to describe how good it was."
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Breanna Tranchemontagne
"A wonderful story about the strength of women, and how the bond together to create a family."
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Carolyn Knowlton
"Relationships...growth in main character"
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Lisa sloan
"We can look forward to life, especially when you find your people 🤗"
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Max
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