Last Days At The Dixie Girl Cafe
by Robin Swicord

Jeri Lee is about to close down her Dixie Girl Cafe in a Georgia town.

She's a sweet, if slightly dotty, religious fundamentalist who believes she's destined to bear another Messiah and she's going to marry widowed Wayne Blossom, Sr., a fanatical right winger who runs a sheet metal shop and does a brisk business in bomb shelters on the side.

Wayne, Jr., who runs the filling station, is a philanderer married to disillusioned, tomboyish Joy.

The youngest of the Blossom family, Lanette, is going to college on a baton twirling scholarship.

These are real people.

Each one faces a personal holocaust; each one is saved from it or succumbs to it.

The central idea has to do with the power of love.