Local author Barbara Pomarolli will be in the store Saturday, April 10th to sign copies of her book, The Adventures of the Quarter Slot Sisters from 1-3.
From Barbara’s web site www.barbarapom.com:
In recent years there have been countless books turned into Hollywood movies about “Southern Belles”, the majority of whom are played by Yankee actresses with fake southern accents and even in the case of Scarlett O’Hara by a British actress. I will say that Vivien Leigh did a better impersonation than most of the other so called southern actresses. These actresses sit around in beauty parlors perpetuating the stereotypical idea of what a “southern belle” really is. We don’t hate men and all want to be prom queens riding on floats and blowing kisses to the adoring crowds (Sweet Potato Queens); we don’t subscribe to the theory that the higher the hairdo the closer we are to heaven (Steel Magnolias); we don’t drink too much and mess up our daughter’s lives (Ya Ya Sisterhood)….you get the picture.
This list could be endless but the point I want to make is that the sordid stories you’re read or the Hollywood movie versions you’ve seen aren’t the real portrayals of what is meant by the term “southern belle”. The stories I am going to tell are the real deal…right from the Peach state…true life accounts from the “Quarter Slot Sisters” .
Our story is not the typical saga of girls who knew each other from childhood or met in college and formed an immediate life long bond. You see our friendship didn’t start until our husbands retired and we all moved from various parts of the country to a little remote section of central Georgia which we refer to as Paradise.
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