Why did I love this book?
This was a favorite novel of both of my grandparents, who have since passed on, and they encouraged me to read it as a teen. It soon became one of my favorite books. Olive Ann Burns was local to the county where I grew up, so I love it for the local aspect, but also it’s just a really warm, funny, poignant novel that lovingly, hilariously details southern families and all the happiness, heartbreak, and drama they go through.
3 authors picked Cold Sassy Tree as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
The one thing you can depend on in Cold Sassy, Georgia, is that word gets around—fast. When Grandpa E. Rucker Blakeslee announces one July morning in 1906 that he's aiming to marry the young and freckledy milliner, Miss Love Simpson—a bare three weeks after Granny Blakeslee has gone to her reward—the news is served up all over town with that afternoon's dinner. And young Will Tweedy suddenly finds himself eyewitness to a major scandal. Boggled by the sheer audacity of it all, and not a little jealous of his grandpa's new wife, Will nevertheless approves of this May-December match and…