Lemon City

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Lemon City

In this wry fiction debut, Elaine Meryl Brown plunges lucky readers into a gripping narrative of small-town hijinks and big-time hearts.

Rule Number One: Never marry an Outsider. If you do, the boll weevil will bite you back. Rule Number Two: If you canâ€™t be honest, you might as well be dead.

Nestled in the foothills of Virginiaâ€™s Blue Ridge mountains, Lemon City has ten rules, all designed in the best interests of its tight-knit black community. Granddaddy Dunlap knows all too well what can happen to folks who venture beyond Lemon Cityâ€™s protective borders. He once had to venture outside town to identify his best friendâ€™s body. So when his firebrand granddaughter Faye, returns from college married to an Outsider, he must act fast to keep her in Lemon Cityâ€™s safe embrace.

It proves to be a challengeâ€“and not just because the patriarch is distracted by the tensions arising from the heated tomato-growing contest for the annual county fair. Fayeâ€™s new husband, Harry, is a slick talker with a roving eye. Faye sees him as her ticket to New York City, where she hopes to fulfill big business dreams, but even the best-laid plans can be thwarted, as Faye discovers that marriage itself isnâ€™t much of a honeymoon. No matter. She packs her bags, fully prepared to head north with or without her husband, when Harry turns up dead. Now the Dunlap family is trying to figure outâ€“before the Thanksgiving turkey gets coldâ€“who did the deed.

From the Trade Paperback edition.

Country	USA
Author	Elaine Meryl Brown
Binding	Kindle Edition
Edition	Reprint
EISBN	9780345512574
Format	Kindle eBook
Label	One World/Ballantine
Manufacturer	One World/Ballantine
NumberOfPages	274
PublicationDate	2009-02-18
Publisher	One World/Ballantine
ReleaseDate	2009-02-24
Studio	One World/Ballantine

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