Reviews

Hanrahan courageously and unflinchingly makes her 1950s and 60s Memphis home come hilariously, seriously, and deliriously alive with wonderfully idiosyncratic, richly-textured characters, a vibrant, wild and warm home and neighborhood life, and the Catholic, Irish, black, white, upper- and lower-crust of crazy cozy explosive Memphis Tennessee. Hanrahan's memoir is great historical drama, passionate sentiment, surprising information, realistic dialogue, courageous honesty, and shocking but compassionately-rendered frankness, all rolled into 300 riveting pages of rollicking, harsh and delicate revelation. Truman Capote's early work comes to mind." --Bill Branyon, Author of Liberating Liberals