The something you could depend upon in chilly Sassy, Georgia, is that observe will get round - quick. whilst Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee declares one July morning in 1906 that he is aiming to marry the younger and freckledy milliner, leave out Love Simpson - a naked 3 weeks after Granny Blakeslee has long gone to her present - the inside track is served up in every single place city with that afternoon's dinner. And younger Will Tweedy all of sudden reveals himself eyewitness to an immense scandal. Boggled by means of the sheer audacity of all of it, and never a bit jealous of his grandpa's new spouse, Will however approves of this May-December fit and follows its development with only a smidgen of younger prurience. because the newlyweds' chaperone, conspirator, and confidant, Will is aware of his one-armed, renegade grandfather's moment youth; in the meantime, he does a few growing to be up of his personal. He will get run over via a educate and lives to inform approximately it; he kisses his first woman, and survives that too. Olive Ann Burns has given us a undying, humorous, resplendent novel - a couple of romance that rocks a complete city, a couple of boy's passage in the course of the momentous yet elusive 12 months whilst formative years melts into formative years, and approximately simply how humans lived and died in a small Southern city on the flip of the century. Inhabited by means of characters who're clever and loony, unimpeachably pious and deliciously irreverent, chilly Sassy, Georgia, is the fitting surroundings for the debut of a storyteller of infrequent brio, exuberance, and style.