Suicide Supper Club Rhett Devane 9780615863306 Books
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In the Deep South, the grinding summer heat is enough to make people stupid. Four small town Southern women—each with distinct reasons to consider her life total crap—band together to forge “the easy way out.” But life has a way of turning out opposite of misdirected plans. Abby has no husband, no children, no living kin, and a painful family secret. Loiscell is a two-time breast cancer survivor facing recurrence with dwindling faith and courage. Sheila is a meek abused wife hiding behind a religious, volunteer-queen veneer. Estranged from her only child, Caroline “Choo-choo” Ivey desperately misses her late husband. As the relentless summer heat continues, conditions deteriorate for the women. Initially in jest, they propose group suicide a nice meal, followed by a quick death courtesy of a paid assassin. Choo-choo offers to pay, and Sheila figures a way to enlist her husband to acquire a contact name. Then plans go haywire. The Suicide Supper Club was a finalist in the 2012 Florida Writers Association RPLA contest. The Suicide Supper Club tackles tough subjects—abuse, cancer, aging—but with humor. In the South, humor is as essential as breathing and often filters life’s harsh realities.
Suicide Supper Club Rhett Devane 9780615863306 Books
I just this minute finished Suicide Supper Club, Rhett DeVane's latest adventure through the lives of the ladies who populate the tight-knit community of her delightful southern fiction. At least she CLAIMS they're fiction, but, shoot, I recognize them all, from my own childhood. They are those aunts and mammaws and cousins who sat in porch swings and chatted in the evenings, while we kids squeezed in our best hide-and-go-seek game of the day--the one played just after dark when we could hide in the shadows. Preferrably up under the porch, where we could eavesdrop.I can honestly say that Rhett's characters have made me appreciate those days and those ladies much more than I did back then. Her people are so real, so human, so perfect-yet-flawed--and so blamed funny that I don't dare eat or drink while I'm reading, or I'd choke. Then I turn a page and get smacked in the face with the mayhem that life throws into these ladies' laps, and a whole 'nother set of emotions get shaken out of me. Rhett's characters bring the mix of all the solid values of their own past right up into today, making adjustments--some readily and some dragging their sandals, but always with the home-grown gritty Southern humor and wisdom that you either have or you don't. And Rhett Devane does--in bushels and pecks, yes indeedy. And she's such a prolific writer, she comes close to writing as fast as I can read!
Joy Balmer, author of Hand-Me-Downs, the Secrets
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Suicide Supper Club Rhett Devane 9780615863306 Books Reviews
“Life is crap and the weather is stupid-hot reasons enough for four small-town Southern women to plan ‘the easy way out,’” the publisher’s description for "Suicide Supper Club" informs us. Rhett DeVane (“Cathead Crazy”) brings her trademark sparkling prose and deep insights into human nature to this story of the darkness and light in the lives of Abby, Loiscell, Sheila and “Choo-choo.”
Truth be told, the light is in short supply.
The lives of these kindred spirits play out in the Florida Panhandle between Chattahoochee, a small town with a main street dominated by a mental institution, and Tallahassee, the state capital, 44 miles away. Most of the festering family secrets, declining health, estrangement and physical abuse live and breathe in Chattahoochee for Abby, Loiscell, Sheila and Choo-choo. Tallahassee is for shopping, fine dining, cancer treatments and a prospective appointment with a hit man.
Suicide and humor are usually mutually exclusive worlds. But they seamlessly merge through DeVane’s inventive plot, fully realized characters, knowledge of Southern life and customs, and sense of place. Readers cannot help but feel the characters’ reactions to the darkness in their lives and, quite possibly, understand the rationale for a suicide supper club.
The light in "Suicide Supper Club" comes from the great love and esteem the four women have for each other and the ways they find for coping with the Florida heat and the crap. I grew up in the Florida panhandle, so it was easy for me to see near the beginning of this novel that when it comes to Chattahoochee and Tallahassee and the people who live there, Rhett DeVane gets it right.
You’ll see that, too, long before you reach the last page and learn whether or not Abby, Loiscell, Sheila and Choo-choo are still among the living.
4 Stars, very good. I recommend you read all of her southern fiction books in chronological order. They are hard to put down.
This was such a good book and very well written. Rhett and I are both from Chattahoochee and her sister was one of my best friends. Looking forward to reading another Rhett book.
Read everything Rhett DeVane writes. She comes from my hometown--went to school with her. She is one of the writers that come from my hometown.
This is a bit different from the usual, but fabulous stories of timeless Southern characters in her previous novels. This one is a thriller with interesting twists. The same wonderful cast of characters remain, but the focus is on 3 troubled women who find each other. It's about bad judgment and poor communication and all those other foibles that beset us. Wonderful!
Our book club member chose this book and I'm glad she did. I was wondering why the title was assigned. At first I thought it was because of their lives. They each were living a life that was suicide in and of itself. I read low self esteem, self loathing, illness and what ifs. Life missed out on and no way out! The author was clever not to let them discuss their plans before it "hit" took place. Oh the mine fields were placed all over the story but still their were many questions left unanswered. I like that, because there may be another book! Thank you Rhett that was good.
I just this minute finished Suicide Supper Club, Rhett DeVane's latest adventure through the lives of the ladies who populate the tight-knit community of her delightful southern fiction. At least she CLAIMS they're fiction, but, shoot, I recognize them all, from my own childhood. They are those aunts and mammaws and cousins who sat in porch swings and chatted in the evenings, while we kids squeezed in our best hide-and-go-seek game of the day--the one played just after dark when we could hide in the shadows. Preferrably up under the porch, where we could eavesdrop.
I can honestly say that Rhett's characters have made me appreciate those days and those ladies much more than I did back then. Her people are so real, so human, so perfect-yet-flawed--and so blamed funny that I don't dare eat or drink while I'm reading, or I'd choke. Then I turn a page and get smacked in the face with the mayhem that life throws into these ladies' laps, and a whole 'nother set of emotions get shaken out of me. Rhett's characters bring the mix of all the solid values of their own past right up into today, making adjustments--some readily and some dragging their sandals, but always with the home-grown gritty Southern humor and wisdom that you either have or you don't. And Rhett Devane does--in bushels and pecks, yes indeedy. And she's such a prolific writer, she comes close to writing as fast as I can read!
Joy Balmer, author of Hand-Me-Downs, the Secrets
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