American Pie

by Michael Lee West

Book Overview

The lives of the three McBroom sisters of Tallulah, Tennessee, were tangled before the eldest, Eleanor, discovered their mother hanging from the Venetian blindsand the years have done little to comb... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0060183578
• ISBN13: 9780060183578
• Release Date: January 1996
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Length: 324 Pages
• Weight: 1.34 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.3" x 6.1" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

Southern Fiction at its Best

I love the south. I love key lime pie and barbequed chicken and cole slaw and old ladies who wear funny hats and sitting out back under the old oak tree, sweat running down my neck dreaming of the northern Indiana winters of my youth. Okay. You caught me. But I do love southern fiction and Michael Lee West does it as well as it can be done. She's got the touch. Eleanor, Freddie, and JoNell have seen their share of death and disappointment and are now at a turning point in each of their lives. You'll love all three of them, as well as Minerva, the grandmother who raised them. I am definitely a Michael Lee West fan after reading AMERICAN PIE and CRAZY LADIES. She takes a story and twists it neatly into a comfortable read, one that was more interesting for me than watching people in an airport or eating lunch. Just plain good!!

Three Southern Sisters & Their Daily Encounters

This novel is quite different from the books I'm used to reading. It envelopes you into the lives of the McBroom sisters and their grandmother as they deal with love, life, and death. It's serious, but also, hilarious.I found myself finishing this tome within 2 days because I genuinely cared about the characters and their so-called 'family curse'. Bad things kept happening to the sisters and their grandmother because of the curse and I felt the need to see if any resolutions were provided.The author's writing style is laid-back and free flowing. Very easy to follow.... American Pie is tasty and easy to digest, check it out. Trust me, you'll be satisfied!

Doesn't take much willing suspension of disbelief

to embrace West's remarkable characters and claim them for friends. American Pie's humor, dialogue, and women characters weave themselves into our lives. Too different to be sisters, but isn't that the way it works in real life? I believe West finds a way to sprinkle a little bit of all of us into her heroines. Like the sisters of Crimes of the Heart, these characters learn to grow together regardless of their differences. Great southern novel!

Bittersweet (but hilarious) tale of a Southern family

This one was hard to put down! The book is so well written, with in-depth depictions of three very different sisters and the adoring grandmother who helped to raise them. Although tragedy seems to follow the family like the plague, the sisters cope in their individual styles, which will leave you, at times, in stitches. If you enjoyed any of West's other novels, or other stories such as Rebecca Wells' "Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood" and "Little Altars Everywhere," I would recommend this one as a must-read!

Female Bonding: Hilarious and Heartwarming

I read this book after Rebecca Wells' Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood and Patty Jane's House of Curl by Lorna landvik. American Pie is a story about three wild Southern women who are searching for the American dream. They keep getting disappointed yet they bounce back each time. Eleanor, who is agoraphobic, Freddie, who is a genius marine biologist (but is married to a man who can't keep his zipper zipped), and Jonell, who is a bar hopping, man crazy belle. They all come together in a little Tennessee town after the slut gets hit by a train. One thing after the next happens. Deaths, impetetous love affairs, family secrets revealed. Wells, Landvik, and West excell at female buddy books. I highly recommend their novels read back to back.