Karin Gillespie Dollar Daze

Dollar Daze

Karin Gillespie

Simon & Schuster, Aug 2006, $19.95

ISBN: 0743264290

In Cayboo Creek, Georgia the widows of the Bottom Dollar Emporium are excited and in denial as love seem to have come around for a second time. Octogenarian Attalee Gaines finds love with a younger man seventy-eight years old and Dooley Prichard; they emit enough heat to solve the gas crisis while the even younger Mavis Loomis and Birdie Murdock shake their heads in disgust as their mating days are long gone. Septuagenarian Mrs. Tobias agrees with the latter duo especially when watching Attalee and Dooley hold hands.

In spite of insisting no more men in their lives, long time best friends Mavis and Birdie each finds a hunk they like. The problem is simple their respective man is the same guy brewing trouble as he plays both for fools. Even high society Mrs. Tobias finds her peer group males tedious so looks at the working class for a real man.

The latest Bottom Dollar Emporium tale is as sweet as southern tea as the elderly women begin to find new men in their lives. The lighthearted story line will please fans of this series though this entry has no real surprises. Karin Gillespie provides a lighthearted slice of life in small-town Georgia that will remind the audience of Mossy Creek.

Harriet Klausner