"In Hoffman's charming debut, Cecelia Rose (CeeCee) Honeycutt tells the story of her tragic life and the strong women who stepped in to save her. At age 12, CeeCee realizes her mother, flouncing around Willoughby, OH, in prom dresses and matching shoes, is crazy and the town's laughingstock/5(K). Saving CeeCee Honeycutt People is wise ‘cause they get out in the world and live. Wisdom comes from experience—from knowin' each day is gift and accepting it with gladness. Laugh-out-loud funny, at times heartbreaking, and written in a pitch-perfect voice, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt is a spirited Southern tale that explores the intricacies of female relationships while illuminating the journey of a young girl who loses her mother but finds many others. “Beth Hoffman’s extraordinary debut, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt.
Steel Magnolias meets The Help in Beth Hoffman's New York Times bestselling Southern debut novel, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt Twelve-year-old CeeCee Honeycutt is in trouble. For years, she has been the caretaker of her mother, Camille, the town's tiara-wearing, lipstick-smeared laughingstock, a woman who is trapped in her long-ago moment of glory. Author Beth Hoffman introduces her debut novel Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, available from Viking Press on Janu. Saving CeeCee Honeycutt Beth Hoffman, Author. Viking/Pamela Dorman $ (p) ISBN More By and About This Author. OTHER BOOKS. Looking for Me; Buy this book.
Beth Hoffman’s first novel is adorable, sweet, tear-jerking, heart-tugging, wise, and speaks to the wonderful hospitality, etiquette and good manners of people in the South. The characters are so well developed in the novel. You will absolutely love CeeCee, Tootie, Oletta and Mrs. Odell. However, the relationship that CeeCee and Oletta carve. “Beth Hoffman’s extraordinary debut, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, is the book I dreamed of finding to launch my new imprint, Pamela Dorman Books. As the editor of The Secret Life of Bees, I have read a lot of wannabe Southern coming-of-age fiction. Although CeeCee Honeycutt is only 11 years old, she needs saving, and quick. Abandoned by her father, she is left to care for her psychotic mother who wears a tiara and a pageant dress and thinks she is still the Vidalia Onion Queen. When tragedy visits the Honecutt family, a long lost Aunt steps into CeeCee’s life offering to rescue her.
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