Only Rita Mae Brown author of Rubyfruit Jungle could have written a novel as passionately
delightful as Southern Discomfort. Here is a witty warm and pentrating tale of two decades in
Montgomery Alabama a world where all is not what it seems. Meet Hortensia Reedmuller Banastre
a beautiful woman entrenched on old money white magnolia and a loveless marriage until she
meets an utterly gorgeous young prizefighter. Amid such memorable characters as Banana Mae
Parker and Blue Rhonda Latrec (two first-class whores) and Reverend Linton Ray (who wears his
clerical collar too tightly for anyone's good) Hortensia struggles to survive the hurricane of
emotions caused by her scandalous love. How she ultimately triumphs is a touching and beautiful
human drama an intense and exuberant affair of the heart.
