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Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! is the funny, serious, and compelling new novel by Fannie Flagg, author of the beloved Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe (and prize-winning co-writer of the classic movie).

Once again, Flagg's humor and respect and affection for her characters shine forth. Many inhabit small-town or suburban America. But this time, her heroine is urban: a brainy, beautiful, and ambitious rising star of 1970s television. Dena Nordstrom, pride of the network, is a woman whose future is full of promise, her present rich with complications, and her past marked by mystery.

Among the colorful cast of characters are:

Sookie, of Selma, Alabama, Dena's exuberantcollege roommate, who is everything that Denais not; she is thrilled by Dena's success and willdo everything short of signing autographs forher; Sookie's a mom, a wife, and a Kappa forever

Dena's cousins, the Warrens, and her aunt Elner,of Elmwood Springs, Missouri, endearing, loyal,talkative, ditsy, and, in their way, wise

Neighbor Dorothy, whose spirit hovers over themall through the radio show that she broadcastfrom her home in the 1940s

Sidney Capello, pioneer of modern sleaze journalism and privateer of privacy, and Ira Wallace,his partner in tabloid television

Several doctors, all of them taken with--andalmost taken in by-Dena

There are others, captivated by a woman who tries to go home again, not knowing where home or love lie.

From the Trade Paperback edition.