Welcome to the World, Baby Girl!

by Fannie Flagg

Book Overview

Sweeping from the gentler confines of late 1940s small town America to the tough side of the New York media circus in the '70s, Welcome to the World, Baby Girl mines golden seams of goodness and... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0679426140
• ISBN13: 9780679426141
• Release Date: September 1998
• Publisher: Random House (NY)
• Length: 496 Pages
• Weight: 1.88 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.5" x 9.6"

Customer Reviews

The Elmwood Springs journey starts. Book 1

If you like stories about the 40s and 50s these books are for you. Great characters that draw you in

A MUST READ

I bought this book at a Library Book Sale, and I brought on my vacation to a Rhode Island beach last year, and I enjoyed it immensely. I loved it, and Ms. Flagg wrote a good yarn. The storyline was really good, and I couldn't put it down. A MUST READ. If you like a good southern story, you will definitely enjoy this one.

Breathtaking!

This book is my all time favortie book! I laughed and cried and couldn't put it down! Fannie Flagg so easily captivates her audience and this book is no exception!

Welcome to a fantastic book...

I really, really enjoyed this. I didn't think I would. I really hated the title. It started off kind of slowly, and I really disliked the main character, Dena Nordstrom, an up-and-coming television journalist/reporter who focuses on only her career and is experiencing stress-related illness because of it. I didn't really understand a few of the beginning parts, mostly the ones about the folks in Elmwood Springs, but after a bit, I got into them and enjoyed those parts very much. Flagg switches POV almost constantly, and it keeps the book from getting stale. Dena's illness puts her into therapy (which she attends unwillingly), and her therapist (second one- first one had to send her to a colleague because he fell in love with her) starts to get her to dig up her past, which includes a mother who moved her from place to place constantly and finally abandoned her at age 15. Dena goes back to Elmwood Springs, MO to the only living relatives she has, to try to find out WHY her mother left. This, my friends, is something you wouldn't expect. I was amazed when I realized WHY her mother left. I never saw it coming. Very, very interesting book, everything weaves together very nicely. Great plot, great story, great characters. Wonderful book, very highly recommended.

A sophisticated book by a great author.

Fannie Flagg is truly improving as an author! Her first novel: Daisy Fay and the Miracle Man was good, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe was great, this book is wonderful!A very interesting plot about a newscaster named Dena Nordstrom who lost her way home. She finds it with the help of two psychiatrists, a bleeding ulcer, a fellow, older newscaster, and of course the hilarious cast of characters from her hometown in Missouri! Aunt Elner is one of the greatest characters in literature! Under the ghost of "Neighbor Dorothy" a 1940s homemaker who had a radio show which "on a cold, clear day" could be heard all the way to the Canadian border, Dena learns the meaning of home in much the same way Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz does: in a voyage of self-discovery, including finding out some shocking, sad, truths about her mother's and her own past and origens.A well-written sophisticated, funny, suspenseful book which will have you flipping pages to the end. Great plot, beautifully characterized, will take you home.

Why did the book have to end?

Welcome to the World, Baby Girl! was one of the most enjoyable books that I have read recently. Full of humor. The characters were great... I tried to savor the last 100 pages so it wouldn't end! It had all the elements of a good story...with twists...I found myself getting mad at Dena, and then liking her again...My only regret is that I didn't save this book for a vacation or the beach...and I do hope there will be a sequel! Or at least a movie! Fannie Flagg did it again..in fact I went out and bought Daisy Fay today!