Bingo

About this book

The acclaimed author of Rubyfruit Jungle and Six Of One retums to Runnymede Maryland for an outrageous poignant and surprising story of passion rivalry and small-town fun. Straddling the Mason-Dixon Line since before the Civil War is Runnymede. And it seems that ever since then most people in the town have been inherently split: between good and bad or love and sex or male and female or politics and sobriety. Nicole ("Nickel") Smith is in such a dilemma herself--here she is an avowed lesbian having an affair that would shock Runnymede as much as it shocks Nickel herself. And her work seems to be going to the dogs too when the beloved newspaper where she is an editor is put up for sale. Thank goodness the weekly bingo games still go on though Nickel is a little weary of playing referee there for the flamboyant Hunsenmeir sisters Louise and Julia. Nickels momma who is now pushing ninety but clawing like cats over handsome newcomer Ed Tutweiler Walters. A parade of townsfolk and kin weave their colorful way through the trials tribulations and ultimate triumphs of our heroines in this spirited novel of the South that appeals as much to the funny bone as to the heart. From the Paperback edition.