Eat, Drink, and Be From Mississippi A Novel

Truely Noonan is the quintessential Southern boy made good. Like his older sister, Courtney, Truely left behind the slow, sweet life of Mississippi for jet-set San Francisco, where he earned a fortune as an Internet entrepreneur. Courtney and Truely each find happy marriages--until, as if cursed by success, those marriages start to crumble. Then their lives are interrupted by an unexpected stranger--a troubled teenager named Arnold, garrulous, charming, thuggishly dressed, and determined to move in to their world. Arnold turns their lives upside down--and in the process this unlikely trio becomes the family that each had been searching for. In the best Southern fiction tradition, Kincaid has brought us an inspiring story about finding the way home.

Nanci Kincaid is the author of Crossing Blood, Balls, Pretending the Bed Is a Raft (made into a feature film), Verbena, and As Hot as it Was You Ought to ThankMe.She divides her time between San Jose and Honolulu.