This novel set in small-town Indiana focuses on a group of African-American women who have been friends since high school. Now in their sixties, a bit of a mid-life crisis is triggered for them by the death of Earl, the owner of Earl's All-You-Can-Eat, the first black-owned business in Plainview, Ind., and the diner at which they've been meeting for decades. Nelson calls the novel – which she compares to both "Steel Magnolias" and "The Help" – "charming, hilarious, winning, with a jovial spirit."
