New Novel: The Supremes at Earl's All-You-Can-Eat

[johnjeb]

Just received an e-mail from Barnes & Noble about today's new book releases. This novel caught my attention!

Here's the amazon link:

Book Description
Release date: March 12, 2013

Meet Odette, Clarice, and Barbara Jean. . .

Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat is home away from home for this inseparable Plainview, Indiana, trio. Dubbed “the Supremes” by high school pals in the tumultuous 1960s, they weather life’s storms together for the next four decades. Now, during their most challenging year yet, dutiful, proud, and talented Clarice must struggle to keep up appearances as she deals with her husband’s humiliating infidelities. Beautiful, fragile Barbara Jean is rocked by the tragic reverberations of a youthful love affair. And fearless Odette engages in the most terrifying battle of her life while contending with the idea that she has inherited more than her broad frame from her notorious pot-smoking mother, Dora.

Through marriage, children, happiness, and the blues, these strong, funny women gather each Sunday at the same table at Earl’s diner for delicious food, juicy gossip, occasional tears, and uproarious banter.

http://www.amazon.com/Supremes-at-Earls-All-You-Can-Eat/dp/0307959929/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1363136222&sr=1-1&keywords=the+supremes+at+earl%27s+all+you+can+eat

[johnjeb]

Amazon.com Review
An Amazon Best Book of the Month, March 2013: In the small southern town of Plainview, Indiana, Odette, Barbara Jean, and Clarice have stayed close since their high school days, when they held court at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat. Affectionately called “the Supremes,” they survived the racial tensions of the ‘60s, splintering families, and complicated love affairs by always having each other’s backs. Now that they’ve reached their sixties, still living seemingly happy lives in their home town, Earl’s sudden passing isn’t the only trigger for their own post-mid-life crises. Feisty, steady Odette has been seeing a lot of her mother--who happens to be dead, and palling around with the misbehaving spirit of Eleanor Roosevelt. Clarice, always so concerned with keeping up appearances, has decided her philandering husband no longer gets a pass. And the greatest love of Barbara Jean’s past has returned, dredging up a harrowing loss she numbs with vodka. With many of the same winning qualities as The Help and Steel Magnolias, Edward Kelsey Moore’s debut is an utterly charming, often hilarious tribute to friendships so strong they eclipse the bonds of blood family. --Mari Malcolm

[Jimi LaLumia]

Entertainment Weekly in this issue already suggests that this should become a film..

[splanky]

I read it at the beginning of this year. Really good book by a talented new writer but it
actually has nothing to do with Motown's Supremes or girl groups in general. That title
was a clever ploy to sell more copies of the book , super sneaky and it'll work too knowing how rabid a lot of people get at any mention or hint of reference to - OMG!-"The Supremes"...LOL!!!......

[Kamasu_Jr]

Sounds like another catchy title "Steak Diana Ross."