This hilarious send-up of outlandish Southern characters includes a beautician, a luncheonette waitress, a radio evangelist, the widow of a gas and oil distributror and the residents of a fictional mobile home park in Arkansas as they find uproarious ways to enjoy life, needle each other, and remember the dear-departed. 

Sculptor and visual artist, Jane F. Hankins of Little Rock, Arkansas, is best known for her ceramic sculptures of colorful senior citizens and gnomes.   One of ten Arkansas women artists included in a juried show at the National Museum of Women in the Arts in Washington, DC, Jane has been a strong presence in the Arkansas artists’ community for over three decades.  A graduate of Arkansas State University, Hankins plans two sequels in the Peavine Chronicles, of which the present book is volume one.  Excerpts from this novel have been produced in a reader's theater production at Arkansas Repertory Theater.  Hankins lives in Little Rock, Arkansas with her husband, the broadcaster Craig O'Neill.