Coming Attractions A Wonderful Novel Author:Fannie Flagg Charming story of the life of an eleven year old girl & her growth through her young teens to maturity in the deep south — Critically acclaimed, bestselling author's first book. "Coming Attractions is the journal of Daisy Fay Harper, named for a vase of flowers in her mother's hospital room. The journal begins in 1952 when Daisy Fay is a lonely e... more »leven-year-old child and ends six years later when she becomes the assured and flamboyant winner of the Miss Mississippi Contest. Along the way we are introduced to the raffish and outrageous characters who help her undergo this transformation, starting with her father Bill, a sometime movie projectionist, sometime motel and restaurant operator and full-time drinker, and ending with Mr. Cecil, the leading hat designer of Hattiesburg. In between are the Reverend Billy Bundy, who is responsible for Daisy's resurrection from the dead; Pickles Watkins, her best friend, who chooses a shotgun wedding to a desperate homelife; and Mrs. Dot, the leader of Shell Beach's Jr. Debutantes."« less