Swimming and sex seemed a lot alike to me when I was growing up. You took offmost of your clothes to do them and you only did them with people who were thesame ... » 

Swimming and sex seemed a lot alike to me when I was growing up. You took offmost of your clothes to do them and you only did them with people who were thesame color as you. As your daddy got richer you got to do them in fancierplaces. Starting with her father who never met a whitetail buck he couldntshoot a whiskey bottle he couldnt empty or a woman he couldnt charm andher mother who invented road rage before 1960 Melissa Delbridge introducesus to the people in her own family bible. Readers will find elements ofSouthern Gothic and familiar vernacular characters but Delbridge endows eachwith her startling and original interpretation. In this disarmingly unguardedand unapologetic memoir she shows us what really happened in the stew ofreligion and sex that was 1960s Tuscaloosa. «