Splendora
by
Edward Swift
Edward Swift’s provocative and hilarious 1978 debut novel is about a small Southern town that’s turned upside down by a new arrival: Miss Jessie Gatewood (formerly known as Mr. Timothy John Coldridge). Miss Jessie is the new town librarian, but she has much bigger plans than just shelving books. She intends to give the town and its people a much-needed makeover. But even as she is influencing the fashion sense of the local ladies — and winning the heart of the lovesick Brother Leggett, Splendora’s Baptist minister — a surprising plan for vengeance occupies the fabulous Miss Gatewood’s mind.
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