{"id":13414,"date":"2011-10-12T06:00:46","date_gmt":"2011-10-12T12:00:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs2.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/?p=13414"},"modified":"2011-10-07T08:58:12","modified_gmt":"2011-10-07T14:58:12","slug":"my-summer-of-southern-discomfort-by-stephanie-gayle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/my-summer-of-southern-discomfort-by-stephanie-gayle\/","title":{"rendered":"My Summer of Southern Discomfort by Stephanie Gayle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocm76143633&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-medium wp-image-13424\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/10\/My-Summer-of-Southern-Discomfort.jpg?resize=282%2C325&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"282\" height=\"325\" \/><\/a>Stephanie Gayle&#8217;s story of a disgraced lawyer who moves from Manhatten to Macon,Georgia has all the ingredients of a standard chick lit novel &#8211; a young, attractive female in a glamorous profession who places her trust in a wildly untrustworthy cad and is now trying to rebuild her life with new friends, in a new job, in a new city.<\/p>\n<p>Gayle, however, nearly forgets to include a new romance for her heroine, Natalie Goldberg. Instead, the real strength of\u00a0<em><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/216.125.140.44\/uhtbin\/cgisirsi\/x\/0\/0\/57\/5?searchdata1=ocm76143633&amp;user_id=davmainweb\" target=\"_blank\">My Summer of\u00a0Southern Discomfort<\/a><\/strong><\/em>\u00a0is in the relationship the Bostonian\u00a0daughter of a legendary civil rights lawyer develops with Ben, her Southern,\u00a0conservative co-worker, as the two of them try a death penalty case together. Natalie and Ben learn to respect the strenghs each one brings to the trial and it&#8217;s preparation.<\/p>\n<p>The book is actually a hybrid of\u00a0genres &#8211; legal fiction\/romance.\u00a0\u00a0A love interest for Natalie is\u00a0hurriedly\u00a0tacked on at the end of the book, so the book does earn it&#8217;s embossed Chick Lit stamp.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Stephanie Gayle&#8217;s story of a disgraced lawyer who moves from Manhatten to Macon,Georgia has all the ingredients of a standard chick lit novel &#8211; a young, attractive female in a glamorous profession who places her trust in a wildly untrustworthy cad and is now trying to rebuild her life with<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/my-summer-of-southern-discomfort-by-stephanie-gayle\/\">[Read more]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[10],"tags":[1086,1751,408,439],"class_list":["post-13414","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-books","tag-chick-lit","tag-legal-fiction","tag-romance","tag-south"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pd0CXx-3um","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414","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\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13414"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13435,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13414\/revisions\/13435"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13414"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13414"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.davenportlibrary.com\/reference\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13414"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}