Fried & True: Tales from Rehoboth Beach

Rehoboth Beach #2

by Fay Jacobs

WINNER! National Federation of Press Women Book of the Year for Humor 2008! From the author of As I Lay Frying - a Rehoboth Beach Memoir... now comes Fried & True - Tales from Rehoboth Beach. Following on the heels of the best-selling and riotous As I Lay Frying, Fay Jacobs gives you the inside story on life in the gay-friendly resort town of Rehoboth Beach, Delaware. This collection of her latest columns from the publication Letters from CAMP Rehoboth is sometimes provocative, sometimes political, often heartwarming and reliably hilarious. Her unique voice and willingness to bare it all in print turn readers into an extended family. In addition to her Letters commentaries, Fay takes you inside the remarkable lives of two Rehoboth Beach icons who helped her become, in her words, an accidental publisher. She shares her close friendship with author Sarah Aldridge (the pen name of writer/publisher Anyda Marchant) who wrote 14 classic novels and founded, with her partner Muriel Crawford, The Naiad Press. Naiad was the first and most successful feminist publishing house in the country in the 1970s and 80s and Fay's friendship with the founders will give readers a extraordinary glimpse of history. Jacobs' witty way of describing universal experiences and the travails life delivers will keep you smiling and relating page after page.

Genres: Nonfiction

280 pages, Paperback

First published April 10, 2007

About the author

Fay is a native New Yorker, who spent 30 years working in journalism and public relations. Her first book, As I Lay Frying a Rehoboth Beach Memoir (2004) is in its 3rd printing. Her second, Fried & True Tales from Rehoboth Beach won the 2008 National Womens Press Association Book of the Year for humor. Fay is the publisher of A&M Books a small feminist press. Fay has contributed The Advocate, Baltimore Sun, Delaware Beach Life, Sussex Weekly and the Wilmington News Journal. "

Reviews

[Posadafan · Rating 5 out of 5]

I had no idea what this book was about. Just saw it in the "local authors" section of our library...and nearly everyone in our tiny state is familiar with Rehoboth Beach. A smartly-written story of deep friendship, interspersed with a collection of dated (but still relevant) newspaper columns, some which read like op-ed pieces...and the author pulls them together seamlessly with poignancy and wit. Lady cracks me up! Thank you, Fay Jacobs.

[Nancy H · Rating 3 out of 5]

This collection of columns by Fay Jacobs on the subject of life in Delaware is funny, insightful, and at times, has you laughing out loud. Despite the humor, it is interesting and sad that in these columns from 2004, 2005, and 2006, some of the subjects and 'battles' for human rights that she discusses are having to be fought again today in 2020.

[Mary · Rating 4 out of 5]

I liked it. Good short chapters to read before bed. Really hits home about some issues facing life in the day of a Gay person.