Seventeen-year-old troublemaker Jane is returning to Bienvielle, AL, a typical southern town full of sweet girls and southern hospitality. She finds herself participating in the Magnolia Maid pageant. Normal southern girls’ dream but not hers. This is her story of how she dealt this. The book is full of all the usual girl topics, in-crowd, frienemies, romance etc. I did enjoy the book and would recommend it to someone looking for a girl read.
A description from the book:
Expelled from thirteen boarding schools in the past five years, seventeen-year-old Jane Fontaine Ventouras is returning to her Southern roots, and the small town of Bienville, Alabama, where ladiesalways wear pearls, nothing says hospitality like sweet tea
and pimento cheese sandwiches, and competing in the annual Magnolia Maid Pageant is every girl’s dream.
But Jane is what you might call an anti-belle-more fishnets and tattoos than sugar and spice. The last thing on her mind is joining the Magnolia Maid brigade and parading around town in
a dress so big she can’t even fi t through doors. So when she finds herself up to her ears in ruffl es and etiquette lessons, she’s got one mission:Escape.
What’s a hipster to do? Will Jane survive Bienville boot camp intact or will they-gasp!-make a Southern belle out of her yet?
