Free Download | Little Bitty Lies | Mary Kay Andrews Novel

In a suburban Atlanta neighborhood where divorce is as rampant as kudzu, Mary Bliss McGowan doesn't notice that her own marriage is in trouble until the summer night she finds a note from her husband, Parker, telling her he's gone -- and has taken the family fortune with him.

Stunned and humiliated, a desperate Mary Bliss, left behind with her seventeen-year-old daughter, Erin, and a mountain of debt, decides to salvage what's left of her life by telling one little bitty lie ... that starts to snowball until Parker turns up dead. Or does he?

Little Bitty Lies is a comic Southern novel not only about one woman's lifelong quest for home but also about all the important things in life: marriage and divorce, mothers and daughters, friendship and betrayal, small-town secrets -- and the perfect recipe for chicken salad.

I'd picked up Andrews' "Hissy Fit" at random a couple weeks ago and LOVED it. So much so that I decided I had to read her other books. Savannah Blues was good and I eagerly looked forward to cracking open "Little Bitty Lies."

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I don't get the witty humor that is supposed to be found throughout this novel. A woman and her best friend plot the fake death of her husband? I really, honestly, tried to find the elements of Andrews' writing that I've enjoyed in the first two of her books that I've read, and am just not seeing it. I'm bothered by the plot line, adding in the fact that the main character, Mary Bliss, has an entirely dysfunctional relationship with her daughter, and it doesn't seem to bother her that she's going to tell her daughter that her father is dead.

I don't know, I'm just not seeing humor in this book. I'm not quite done reading the whole thing -- and have considered putting it down and NOT finishing it many times. But I've decided I will finish it and hope that there is some humorous element in the end?

Fractured writing at its best, and I just think intertwining plotting insurance fraud and cooking chicken salad and being a sales hostess just aren't Andrews' forte. I'll hope the next books go back to what she does seem to do well, and that's write fun, light-hearted Southern humor.