World of Pies: A Novel

In a small town in Texas in the 1960s, young Roxanne journeys toward adulthood as he copes with a pie-baking contest that becomes a lesson in racial politics, a crush on the new female postal worker, and the death of her father and her mother's remarriage, in a debut novel that features recipes following each chapter. Reader's Guide available. Reprint. 40,000 first printing.