First published 2011
Georgia Bottoms maintains her reputation as Six Points, Alabama's most respectable Southern belle. The townspeople see a wealthy, devout Baptist woman who never married. They don't know her family money vanished years ago. They don't know she supports herself through six different lovers, each assigned his own day of the week. Georgia keeps Mondays free and her secret safe. Her system works perfectly until her Saturday gentleman decides to grow a conscience. The married preacher plans to confess their affair to his entire congregation. Georgia realizes she must act fast to protect everything she has built. Her carefully orchestrated life threatens to collapse in front of the whole town. Mark Childress crafts a story where desperation meets determination in the heart of the Bible Belt.
Genres: fiction, southern-gothic, contemporary-romance, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, suspenseful
Tropes: secrets, unreliable-narrator
Setting: Alabama, Six Points
Period: 20th-century, 21st-century
278 pages · Hardcover · Little, Brown and Company