Sarah Walters is a less-than-perfect debutante. She tries hard to follow
the time-honored customs of the Charleston Camellia Society, as her
mother and grandmother did, standing up straight in cotillion class and
attending lectures about all the things that Camellias don't do. (Like
ride with boys in pickup trucks.)
But Sarah can't quite ignore the barbarism just beneath all that
propriety, and as soon as she can she decamps South Carolina for a life
in New York City. There, she and her fellow displaced Southern friends
try to make sense of city sophistication, to understand how much of
their training applies to real life, and how much to the strange and
rarefied world they've left behind.
When life'
s complications become overwhelming, Sarah returns home to confront with
matured eyes the motto "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia" -- and to
see how much fuller life can be, for good and for ill, among those who
know you best.
Girls in Trucks introduces an irresistable, sweet, and wise voice that
heralds the arrival of an exciting new talent.