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"Can't Wait to Get to Heaven" by Fannie Flagg Length: 6 hours and 1 min. ISBN:   Publisher's Weekly Best Seller Listen to an excerpt with: Windows Media Player Real Player |
Combining southern warmth with unabashed emotion and side-splitting hilarity, Fannie Flagg takes readers back to Elmwood Springs, Missouri, where the most unlikely and surprising experiences of a high-spirited octogenarian inspire a town to ponder the age-old question: Why are we here?
Life is the strangest thing. One minute, Mrs. Elner Shimfissle is up in her tree, picking figs, and the next thing she knows she is off on an adventure she never dreamed of. Meanwhile, back home, Elner’s nervous, high-strung niece Norma faints and winds up in bed with a cold rag on her head; Elner’s neighbor Verbena rushes immediately to the Bible; her truck driver friend, Luther Griggs, whom Elner has known since he was a boy, runs his 18-wheeler into a ditch; and the entire town is thrown for a loop and left wondering, “What is life all about, anyway?”
As this comedy-mystery unfolds, those near and dear to Elner each discover something wonderful, and so will you. Can’t Wait to Get to Heaven is proof once more that Fannie Flagg “was put on this earth to write” (Southern Living), spinning tales as sweet as iced tea on a summer day, with a little extra kick thrown in.
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