Yankee Doodle Dixie
Sep 13, 2011
Yankee Doodle Dixie
Author: Lisa Patton
Publisher: Thomas Dunne Books
Publication Date: September 13, 2011
ISBN: 978-312-55693-8
This is a sequel and directly begins where the first book, Whistlin’ Dixie in a Nor’easter leaves off. I will say right now that I highly recommend you read the first book before starting this one – to me you need that character build up and history from the first novel to jump into this story.
Leelee leaves Vermont and the Inn where she resided for a little over a year to return to Memphis – her homeland. She rolls into town in the middle of the night to find refuge with the woman that raised her, Kissie.
She has to begin to figure out how to re-start her life as a single mother. She wants a career, but a simple job might have to suffice for now. She also needs a place to live, she can’t keep bunking with Kissee (no matter what the lovely lady says) – the woman’s 81 now and deserves her quiet.
As Leelee contemplates opening a restaurant, wooing down the Northern chef that not only saved her Inn in Vermont but planted a pretty good kiss on her as she was leaving that town to return home…she also has to come to terms with thriving once more on her own and supporting her little girls. That said, she plots her future in this book with humor, sly sarcasm and a realistic look at life.
