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Andrews continues his white-and-black saga of the town of Appalachee, Muskhogean County, Georgia--where Red's CafÉ (venue of Andrews' first book) has now been refurbished as a bordello. The owner, who inherited the cafÉ upon Red's departure, is his mistress Baby Sweet Jackson. The primary backer is John Morgan, Jr., the artist/non-conformist son of the town's richest white man. The brothel business not only has official sanction--it's integrated too. And, with white whores and black ones, black customers and white, the place is suffused with a pastoral gentleness of frank, unhypo-critical lust. . . which eventually reveals the various shared bloodlines of same of the principals--especially John Jr. and Motorcycle Mamma, one of the white prostitutes. As in Appalachee Red (1978) and Rosiebelle Lee Wildcat Tennessee (1980), then, Andrews' prime motif remains the commingling of seed and knowledge--an approach which works a mite more predictably but no less charmingly than before. And the result is another unspectacular but raunchily endearing and eminently relaxed Appalachee installment--from a writer who is steadily amassing an intimate, distinctively voiced chronicle of life on both aides of the tracks in small-town, northern Georgia. Copyright ©Kirkus Reviews, used with permission.
