Yolanda Day

“Delta storytellers were well-known exaggerators and told tales rich as the soil. I certainly had my own. But it crossed my mind, as I rode to church that morning, that maybe I hadn’t been living life so much as watching life in Footely. I didn’t have to wonder much what’d enlightened me—in a few weeks, I’d fallen in love with a married man, had my eyebrows plucked, started a dance club when my sister was out of town, and was getting dropped off at church by five prostitutes. If all that hadn’t woken me up, probably nothing would.”
― Kathryn Stockett, The Calamity Club