{"id":10149,"date":"2011-01-24T06:00:33","date_gmt":"2011-01-24T12:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=10149"},"modified":"2011-01-19T14:10:17","modified_gmt":"2011-01-19T20:10:17","slug":"lowcountry-summer-by-dorothea-benton-frank","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/lowcountry-summer-by-dorothea-benton-frank\/","title":{"rendered":"Lowcountry Summer by Dorothea Benton Frank"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Right about now, in the frigid frost of\u00a0 a typical Midwestern mid-winter, a nice hot beach read can come\u00a0to the rescue.\u00a0\u00a0 Fortunately, Dorothea Benton Frank’s Lowcountry Summer<\/em><\/strong><\/a> fills the bill.\u00a0 Previous fans will find\u00a0familiar ground in this sequel to her bestselling novel, Plantation<\/a>. <\/em><\/strong>Though Frank\u00a0resides in New York, she was born and raised on Sullivan’s Island, South Carolina, and her knowledge of the area and it’s cultural customs certainly\u00a0seem to\u00a0authenticate the\u00a0already\u00a0colorful characters.<\/p>\n

For some reason, I don’t know why, maybe it was all the references to the mouth-watering food they were eating , but the narrator\u00a0kept reminding me of Paula Deen.\u00a0 But then she’d reinvent herself when describing\u00a0her\u00a0laugh-out-loud love-life, and yet again when\u00a0trying to deal with a drunken sister-in-law\u00a0or comfort her grief-stricken brother.\u00a0 So there’s more than just sass and sex\u00a0 — there’s all the dynamics of complicated\u00a0family relationships with\u00a0some unexpected and poignant outcomes thrown in along the way.<\/p>\n

I think the thing I enjoyed most was how she used dialog for the narrator, Caroline.\u00a0 For example, Caroline might\u00a0respond verbally\u00a0one way\u00a0(to her 19 year old son in college who’s shacking up with an older single mom) but\u00a0she also lets the reader know her real thoughts, as shown here:<\/p>\n

“But it’s nothing really.\u00a0 I just go over to her place for dinner, that’s all”<\/em><\/p>\n

Oh. My. God.\u00a0 He was having sex.\u00a0 My son was having sex!<\/em><\/p>\n

“Oh, Is she a good cook?”\u00a0 She had better <\/em>not be a good cook.<\/em><\/p>\n

See what I mean?\u00a0 So, come to the library,\u00a0 pick up a copy and than pretend you’re on vacation on a beach near Charleston.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Right about now, in the frigid frost of\u00a0 a typical Midwestern mid-winter, a nice hot beach read can come\u00a0to the rescue.\u00a0\u00a0 Fortunately, Dorothea Benton Frank’s Lowcountry Summer fills the bill.\u00a0 Previous fans will find\u00a0familiar ground in this sequel to her bestselling novel, Plantation. Though Frank\u00a0resides in New York, she was[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[10,8],"tags":[1499,155,439,821,1500,226],"class_list":["post-10149","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","category-staff-picks","tag-beach-read","tag-family","tag-south","tag-south-carolina","tag-southern-stories","tag-summer"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-2DH","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10149"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10241,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10149\/revisions\/10241"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10149"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10149"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10149"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}