Troublesome Creek

REVISED: Like "Fried Green Tomatoes," this short novel explores a town's misjudgment of two spirited young women, one an insider and the other an outsider. Following 9-11, 2001, and the attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the residents of Statenville, Georgia are edgy and eager to lay blame, suspicious of newcomers, then out pops a girl named "Normal" from a chicken truck en route to Florida. Daff, well-known in the town, feels obligated to take Normal in, and becomes invo...