I listened to this book while on a car trip to Wisconsin's Door County. It was fun to realize that the setting of this book is not only Alabama but also Wisconsin! Fannie Flagg reads this story in the audio versions and she does a fabulous job. She is an amazing storyteller!
The story starts with Sookie Poole of Alabama discovering by accident that she is adopted and was never told in her 60 years of life. She begins to secretly investigate her background. The story then switches to Wisconsin in the 1940's and tells about a family who runs a gas filling station. Later the children in the family serve in the war and the girls actually fly planes for the military in the WASP program (Women Air Force Service Program). Sookie quickly learns that her mother was from this family.
The story goes back and forth between the two stories but eventually they come together and you learn the mystery of who is Sookie's biological mother. In the meantime, you are entertained by all kinds of interesting characters from both stories. I highly recommend this book in audio. I enjoyed it a great deal!
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