The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival

The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival by Wheaton, Ken. paperback edition. ISBN: 9780758238528.

Welcome to Grand Prairie, Louisiana-land of confounding accents, hard-drinking senior citizens, and charming sinners-brought to hilarious life in a bracing, heartfelt debut novel simmering with Cajun spice . . . Father Steve Sibille has come home to the bayou to take charge of St. Petes church. Among his challenges are teenybopper altar girls, insomnia-curing confessions, and alarmingly alluring congregant Vicky Carrier. Then theres Miss Rita, an irrepressible centenarian with a taste for whiskey, cracklins, and sticking her nose in other peoples business. When an outsider threatens to poach Father Steves flock, Miss Rita suggests he fight back by staging an event that will keep St. Petes parishioners loyal forever. As The First Annual Grand Prairie Rabbit Festival draws near, help comes from the strangest places. And while the road to the festival may be paved with good intentions-not to mention bake sales, an elephant, and the most bizarre cook-out ever-where it will lead is anyones guess . . .