Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man

Ok, so this is not going to be a very good book review. This was written by Fannie Flagg. She also wrote "Fried Green Tomatoes." I haven't read that book but I have seen the movie. Not my favorite but I know a lot of women like it. Well, this book is just horrible!!! It's the diary of a young girl named Daisy Fay who is 11 when the book starts. She has a rough childhood and EVERYBODY in the book is always drunk. Then it skips to her high school years and that's when the book gets even worse. I was about ready to gouge my eyes out and because I was reading this for a book club I decided to skip to the last few pages to see if it redeems itself. I read the last two entries and thought- "Ok. It's going to get better. Things turn around for her. You discover a secret that I totally did not see coming and it ends mildly happy." NO!!!!! The last part of the book is the WORST part of the book. It says the F-word several times and there's so much swearing and lying and deceiving and the "redeeming" part I thought was going to happen was actually the worst part of the whole book. There's swearing throughout the whole book and I just had enough of everybody being drunk and all the sex talk and I am really disappointed in this book. I can't believe I read the whole thing! I kept saying to myself, "this book is horrible, put it down, don't finish it and just be honest about it at book club." Well, anyway I don't know if I'm at a time in my life when things like this bother me because I am a mom or because I'm trying to be a better person or what, but this is not a "make you feel good-this was a really good book I'd like to read it again" kind of book.
It's set in the late 50's so it's a troubling time when if you got pregnant out of wedlock you were shunned and you could secretly get an abortion and not think twice about it. Drinking was the fashion and everybody and I mean EVERYBODY drank and smoked. It's also set in Mississippi so there's the whole KKK thing as well as all the social classes like white trash and red necks and that sort of thing.
Trust me, you are not missing out on anything and your life will be better if you DO NOT READ THIS BOOK!!!!