Troublesome Creek — Janice Daugharty

REVISED: Like Fried Green Tomatoes, this short novel explores a town's misjudgment of two spirited young women, one an insider and the other an outsider. Following 9-11, 2001, and the attacks on the Twin Towers of the World Trade Center, the residents of Statenville, Georgia are edgy and eager to lay blame, suspicious of newcomers, then out pops a girl named Normal from a chicken truck en route to Florida. Daff, well-known in the town, feels obligated to take Normal in, and becomes involved in the town's war against all things abnormal--especially Normal.