Saving Ceecee Honeycutt: A Novel
Steel Magnolias meets The Help in this New York Times Bestselling Southern debut novel sparkling with humor, heart, and feminine wisdom.
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 as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen of Georgia. When tragedy strikes, Tootie Caldwell, CeeCee’s long-lost great-aunt, comes to the rescue and whisks her away to Savannah. There, CeeCee is catapulted into a perfumed world of prosperity and Southern eccentricity—one that appears to be run entirely by strong, wacky women.
From the exotic Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in her backyard bathtub and uses garden slugs as her secret weapons; to Tootie's all-knowing housekeeper, Oletta Jones; to Violene Hobbs, who entertains a local police officer in her canary-yellow peignoir, the women of Gaston Street keep CeeCee entertained and enthralled for an entire summer.
A timeless coming of age novel set in the 1960s, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt explores the indomitable strengths of female friendship, and charts the journey of an unforgettable girl who loses one mother, but finds many others in the storybook city of Savannah. As Kristin Hannah, author of Fly Away, says, Beth Hoffman's sparkling debut is “packed full of Southern charm, strong women, wacky humor, and good old-fashioned heart."
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 as the 1951 Vidalia Onion Queen of Georgia. When tragedy strikes, Tootie Caldwell, CeeCee’s long-lost great-aunt, comes to the rescue and whisks her away to Savannah. There, CeeCee is catapulted into a perfumed world of prosperity and Southern eccentricity—one that appears to be run entirely by strong, wacky women.
From the exotic Miz Thelma Rae Goodpepper, who bathes in her backyard bathtub and uses garden slugs as her secret weapons; to Tootie's all-knowing housekeeper, Oletta Jones; to Violene Hobbs, who entertains a local police officer in her canary-yellow peignoir, the women of Gaston Street keep CeeCee entertained and enthralled for an entire summer.
A timeless coming of age novel set in the 1960s, Saving CeeCee Honeycutt explores the indomitable strengths of female friendship, and charts the journey of an unforgettable girl who loses one mother, but finds many others in the storybook city of Savannah. As Kristin Hannah, author of Fly Away, says, Beth Hoffman's sparkling debut is “packed full of Southern charm, strong women, wacky humor, and good old-fashioned heart."
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Community Reviews
This was a very entertaining audiobook. I was laughing so hard and some parts. I just love stories of life long girlfriends from the south. Bless their hearts!
I'm on the fence about this book. I liked it, but I thought it was going to go in a different direction, and I think I would have liked that direction better. I wanted CeeCee to stand up to the racism her friends experienced in some way and that never happened.
Story: 3.75
Writing: 3
Learning: 3
Characters: 2.5
Overall Entertainment: 3
Bookclub. This was a good book for a 12 year old, but not so much for an adult. The story is touching and engaging, but lacks depth. The characters are stereotypes. There are certain subjects that are touched on, but then they are dropped - this bothered me - for instance, Cee Cee's father mentions that her grandmother and her aunt had a falling out, and that they didn't communicate. That indicates that Cee Cee's grandmother was still around, but she's never mentioned again, even when the grandmother's sister dies. I listened to the book, and the reader was excellent. It was a solid 3. But, if you want to read a touching story of a girl going through some difficult times, read "Ida B".
Writing: 3
Learning: 3
Characters: 2.5
Overall Entertainment: 3
Bookclub. This was a good book for a 12 year old, but not so much for an adult. The story is touching and engaging, but lacks depth. The characters are stereotypes. There are certain subjects that are touched on, but then they are dropped - this bothered me - for instance, Cee Cee's father mentions that her grandmother and her aunt had a falling out, and that they didn't communicate. That indicates that Cee Cee's grandmother was still around, but she's never mentioned again, even when the grandmother's sister dies. I listened to the book, and the reader was excellent. It was a solid 3. But, if you want to read a touching story of a girl going through some difficult times, read "Ida B".
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