A
Peach of a Pair Blog Tour
About the
Book:
Title: A
Peach of a Pair
Author: Kim Boykin
Publisher: Penguin Random House/Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Genre: Southern Women’s Fiction
Author: Kim Boykin
Publisher: Penguin Random House/Berkley Books
Pages: 304
Genre: Southern Women’s Fiction
"Palmetto Moon" inspired "The
Huffington Post" to rave, It is always nice to discover a new
talented author and Kim Boykin is quite a find. Now, she delivers a
novel of a woman picking up the pieces of her life with the help of
two spirited, elderly sisters in South Carolina.
April, 1953. Nettie Gilbert has
cherished her time studying to be a music teacher at Columbia College
in South Carolina, but as graduation approaches, she can’t wait to
return to her family and her childhood sweetheart, Brooks, in
Alabama. But just days before her senior recital, she gets a letter
from her mama telling her that Brooks is getting married . . . to her
own sister.
Devastated, Nettie drops out of school
and takes a job as live-in help for two old-maid sisters, Emily and
Lurleen Eldridge. Emily is fiercely protective of the ailing Lurleen,
but their sisterhood has weathered many storms. And as Nettie learns
more about their lives on a trip to see a faith healer halfway across
the country, she’ll discover that love and forgiveness will one day
lead her home.
For More Information
- A Peach of a Pair is available at Amazon.
- Pick up your copy at Barnes & Noble.
- Also available at Indiebound.
- Discuss this book at PUYB Virtual Book Club at Goodreads.
Book Excerpt:
Dear Nettie,
It might seem cruel to send
this letter along with a proper invitation, but I couldn’t bring
myself to call you, and I wasn’t given much notice regarding this
matter. I also know you well enough to know you would have to see the
invitation to truly believe it. Although I do regret not having
enough time to have them engraved.
I’m sorry to be the one to
give you the news about Brooks and Sissy. I love you, Nettie, and I
love your sister. I’m not condoning her behavior or the fact that
she is in the family way, but you are blood. You are sisters. No man
can break that bond, not even Brooks.
There’s money and a bus
ticket paper-clipped to the invitation. I’ve checked the schedules.
You should be able to leave Columbia on Thursday the week of the
wedding after your morning classes and get back by Sunday night. I
know how you hate to miss class, and if you are also missing some
wonderful end-of-the-year party, I’m sorry. So very sorry.
But the milk has been
spilled, Nettie. Come home and stand up with your sister. She needs
you. She’s a wreck, and it makes me worry about the baby.
Just come home.
Love,
Mother
About the
Author
Kim Boykin was
raised in her South Carolina home with two girly sisters and great
parents. She had a happy, boring childhood, which sucks if you’re a
writer because you have to create your own crazy. PLUS after you’re
published and you’re being interviewed, it’s very appealing when
the author actually lived in Crazy Town or somewhere in the general
vicinity.
Almost
everything she learned about writing, she learned from her grandpa,
an oral storyteller, who was a master teacher of pacing and sensory
detail. He held court under an old mimosa tree on the family farm,
and people used to come from all around to hear him tell stories
about growing up in rural Georgia and share his unique take on the
world.
As a
stay-at-home mom, Kim started writing, grabbing snip-its of time in
the car rider line or on the bleachers at swim practice. After her
kids left the nest, she started submitting her work, sold her first
novel at 53, and has been writing like crazy ever since.
Thanks to the
lessons she learned under that mimosa tree, her books are well
reviewed and, according to RT Book Reviews, feel like they’re being
told across a kitchen table. She is the author of A Peach of a
Pair, Palmetto Moon and The Wisdom of Hair from
Berkley/NAL/Penguin; Flirting with Forever, She’s the One, Just
in Time for Christmas, Steal Me, Cowboy and Sweet Home
Carolina from Tule. While her heart is always in the Lowcountry
of South Carolina, she lives in Charlotte and has a heart for
hairstylist, librarians, and book junkies like herself.
Her latest book
is the southern women’s fiction, A
Peach of a Pair.
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