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Lucille is on her way from Alabama to Hollywood to become a star on The Beverly Hillbillies. She has poisoned her husband and has his head in a Tupperware container which she keeps with her at all times. Childress does an excellent job of capturing the flavor of the turbulent 1960s as well as making the horrific seem comedic. My favorite scene involves Lucille, the Tupperware, a formal get-together and a yappy little dog. I laughed and cried through this novel.
A mostly unmemorable, but basically entertaining, account of two parallel stories. The first traces the zany escapade of a woman who kills her husband, then travels with his severed head out to California in an effort to seek her fame as a star in Hollywood. This storyline seemed intended to bring lightness and humor to the book, but didn't really appeal to me. The second story is that of Peejoe, a young boy witnessing the beginnings of the civil rights movement in his small town in Alabama.
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