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Chicken-Fried Women
- Author
- Melissa Radke
- Narrator
- Melissa Radke
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Publish Date
- 22 April 2025
- Run Time
- 7 hours 24 minutes
- Format
- Audiobook
What to expect
Lucy and Ethel. Laverne and Shirley. Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche, and Rose. Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of them: the women who raised us, taught us to cook and clap back. The ones who prayed for us, raged at us and humbled us a notch or two when we needed it. These are the women who have encouraged us, teased us, chastised us, and mortified us. And as they fill up the seats around our table, we realize we wouldn’t have it any other way.
They’re our Chicken-Fried Women—battered on the outside, tender on the inside. Some are salty and a couple are Nashville Hot. Filled with a hilarious cast of larger-than life women, this book explores why no one messes with Southern women and their hair, why the whole family comes along when you go bra shopping, why true crime and aquarobics brings us together, and how faith shapes us through it all.
Insightful, big-hearted and laugh-out-loud funny, Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of friendship, kinship and the women who shaped us.
Critics Review
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"Hilarious. Could barely breathe I was laughing so hard."—My Trainer, On Ab Day
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"There better not be one word about me in this book."—My Mom
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"You're writing another book? Why?"—Cashier at Chick-Fil-A
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"I laughed. I cried. I cheered. It was a roller coaster of emotions."—A Woman Who Watched Me Get On a float
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"It surprises me very little that she used the word 'Fried' in her title."—My Doctor
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Details
- Author
- Melissa Radke
- Narrator
- Melissa Radke
- Duration
- 7 hours 24 minutes
- Release Date
- 22 April 2025
- ISBN
- 9781668647073
- Format
- Audiobook
- Publisher
- Hachette Audio
- Genre
- Biography: general, Gender studies: women and girls, Humour, Relationships and families: advice and issues, Christian life and practice, Memoirs
Synopsis
From the bestselling author of Eat Cake. Be Brave, a love letter to the strong, opinionated Southern women who raised her and surround us all. Lucy and Ethel. Laverne and Shirley. Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche, and Rose. Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of them: the women who raised us, taught us to cook and clap back. The ones who prayed for us, raged at us and humbled us a notch or two when we needed it. These are the women who have encouraged us, teased us, chastised us, and mortified us. And as they fill up the seats around our table, we realize we wouldn’t have it any other way. They’re our Chicken-Fried Women—battered on the outside, tender on the inside. Some are salty and a couple are Nashville Hot.  Filled with a hilarious cast of larger-than life women, this book explores why no one messes with Southern women and their hair, why the whole family comes along when you go bra shopping, why true crime and aquarobics brings us together, and how faith shapes us through it all.  Insightful, big-hearted and laugh-out-loud funny, Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of friendship, kinship and the women who shaped us.  
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