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With home-cooked, Southern literary flair, Fannie Flagg (Fried Green Tomatoes) returns with Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! "Baby Girl," as she is lovingly referred to by her sweet, country cousins, is Dena Nordstrom, a tall, blonde, corn-fed girl who makes it big in Manhattan. Ms. Nordstrom is now the top TV anchorwoman in the city, beating out veteran journalists and making ungodly amounts of money. Although her life seems charmed, Dena is frazzled and miserable. She drinks uncontrollably, is a borderline compulsive liar, and is forced to undergo therapy because of her stress-induced ulcer. Her psychiatrist, Dr. O'Malley, falls madly in love with her, of course, and sends the blonde bombshell to a close colleague, Dr. Diggers. Living up to her name, Diggers shovels up a mountain of dysfunction and forces Dena to face her mysterious past; all the while the good doctor reports back to brokenhearted O'Malley about her patient's progress. Meanwhile, back at the station, Ms. Nordstrom has made friends and enemies in very high places. Her greatest ally is Howard Kingsley, the Cronkitesque reporter who wields power with more ease than most seasoned politicos: "He closed the door and handed the driver a ten-dollar bill. 'Take this young lady where she wants to go for me, will you? And be careful, she's valuable property.'" It's a good thing she has friends like that, because her boss, Ira Wallace, makes George Costanza from Seinfeld look like a scrupulous saint. When Wallace hires a nasty but effective mole by the name of Sidney Capello to dig up garbage on celebrities, Nordstrom has a head-on collision with his sense of ethics (or lack thereof) and gets Capello canned. Or so she thinks. Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! is very much like its star, Dena Nordstrom: pretty, scattered, confused, and sometimes interesting. It's a long ride from the Whistle Stop Cafe, and readers who enjoy Jan Karon's Mitford Fall series will most likely be the biggest fans of Flagg's third novel. Amazon.com Audiobook Review
Fans of Fannie Flagg's Southern-fried yarns will enjoy her folksy reading of her third novel--the story of New York TV anchorwoman Dena Nordstrom, who must take her fast-paced life down a few notches, face her mysterious past, and shake hands with her small-town heritage in order to find happiness. Listening to Flagg's storytelling on this abridged rendition, one might as well be sitting across a kitchen table from her as she pours two cups of coffee and serves up slices of apple pie along with the latest neighborhood gossip. Flagg, author of the bestselling book Fried Green Tomatoes at ... read more The New York Times Book Review, Robert Plunket
...it has a very ingratiating cast and the unusual quality of getting better as it goes along. From AudioFile
Anybody who has happy memories of fried green tomatoes and the Whistle Stop Cafe will want to follow Fannie Flagg to Elmwood Springs, Missouri. This old fashioned town, reminiscent of Jan Karon's Mitford, becomes the emotional lodestone for a dazzling TV celebrity named Dena Nordstrom, whose mysterious past is threatening to destroy her. As the plot weaves back and forth in time, Kate Reading captures the highly individual voices of each of the many people who have haunted Dena's troubled life. Listening to Reading is a treat; her voice is almost like that of a beloved aunt telling stories on the ... read more
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Thoroughly delightful and enjoyable
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cheermom
from Philadelphia, PA
December 3, 1999
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The title of the book is somewhat misleading. Think of Deborah Norville or Katie Couric having a deep dark secret - and that's more what you'll get from this book. I was amazed to find that I couldn't put this book down - just a good, entertaining yarn - with a bit of a mystery - lots of nice people - a book to be passed along just for the enjoyment of it.
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Wonderful, but limited
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A reader
from Singapore
December 2, 1999
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The story revolves around Dena, an outwardly tough and ambitious girl - your typical modern day carrer woman by appearance, but inwardly vulnerable and lonely. She longed for something but the problem was, she did not know what she lacked and refused to let others get close to her to help her find out what it was. Written in a lively style, the book has full of adorable characters. The story was able to make me engrossed to follow Dena's ups and downs, rooting for her and symapathise with her. The only problem was, it failed to touch me and sadden me in areas which I felt is should - the part on Dena's mother and her brother. I failed to empathize with these 2 characters as I feel that I do not know them in-depth, the way I knew Dena. In fact, the only character that I knwe in-depth is Dena. I felt that the other characters were not given enough development for me to know and feel them.
--This text refers to the Mass Market Paperback edition.
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Surprised I didn't like it.
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Reviewer:
Judy Wahlberg (Judyw@vbe.com)
from Oshkosh, Wisconsin, U.S.A.
October 31, 1999
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I bought Fannie Flagg's other books. I'm glad I got this from the library. However, I am eagely waiting for her next book.
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3 people found this review helpful.
1 did not.
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Getting better as it goes on.
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Reviewer:
Kris
from Berkeley, California
October 19, 1999
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The story has a strong start, and gets better as more characters come in to play. Although a littler predictable, over all the story was very heart warming and intriguing to read. The writing style was much like Fried Green Tomatoes, each chapter was told from a different characters view point. I reccomend this book, especially if you have read a book from Fannie Flagg in the past and enjoyed her writing.
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