THERE AIN'T ENOUGH FRONT PORCHES

By: Molly Marx Brent
Fiction
Review By: JSSAuthor

After reading There Ain't Enough Front Porches, you might find your speech has slowed to a lazy drawl, you have a sudden hankerin' for cornbread, and you've started to use words like "hankerin'". That's how deeply the characters and the story draw you in to the world of Dunn Berry, Mississippi. Meet Billy Rose Marsh--better known to Dunn Berry as "The Kid"--a 16-year-old girl whose talent is rivaled only by her beauty and spirit. Her life has been a series of performances intended to prepare her for real stardom, until Kenner Golden drives into her life in a brand new Cadillac. Neither of them expects to fall in love--they barely even like each other at the start--but a blind date on Halloween night in 1955 proves to be the beginning of a journey for both of them that changes their lives and the lives of everyone they love as well. Along the way, some long-buried secrets are unearthed, hearts are broken and mended, tragedy strikes without regard to bank accounts or social status, and more than a few miracles are witnessed. Like a visit with the kinfolks, this book will make you laugh, cry, cuss, and cheer, but it will also leave you feeling heartened and at peace, as if you'd just spent a balmy Southern evening holding hands with your sweetheart on your mama's front porch.

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