Miss Undine's Living Room

The third novel about the bunch of excentric characters living in the fictional, but oh-so-real, Tula Springs, Louisiana. Funny and sad. And very intelligent. Wonderfully written. "Mr. Wilcox has real comic genius. He is a writer to make us all feel hopeful" said Anne Tyler.

Imagine yourself at a particles accelerator at CERN.First, assemble the ingredients. Mrs. Olive Mackie, her husband Duane and her teenage son Felix. Uncle L. D., age 91, who depends on various females of this story to keep him going. Dr Martin Bates, student of dentistry, so helpful and charming... Assorted women of the neighborhood, who all went to school together. And, of course, Miss Undine, the retired schoolteacher of them all.Now, mix them all together and accelerate. Gossip and rumors start spinning, congealing into delicious back biting. Wait for it to stop spinning, to see whose life and reputation is still in one piece.A delightful book, full of humor and sharply etched pictures of life in a small southern town.