Savannah from Savannah »

I'm coming home to prove something..to my city, my mother, and myself.

It is a place known to most as Savannah. It is a place known to me as home. I wish I could tell you it was my love for this city that precipitated my return. But I did not return out of a mere longing for home. I returned because I have something to prove to home. I am Savannah...from Savannah.

Library Journal

Winning a fiction contest for unpublished novelists seems like a dream come true for graduate student Savannah Phillips-until she discovers that her pushy mother, the former Miss Georgia, arranged for her to win. After declining the award, Savannah returns home and takes a job as a human-interest writer for the Savannah Chronicle. Her first story, investigating a rigged beauty pagent, leads Savannah on an adventure filled with laughter and tears, and the fledgling journalist becomes a true steel magnolia. This first novel from a Nashville author is smart and witty chick lit. Recommended for public libraries and Southern fiction collections. [Westbow Press is the new fiction imprint of Thomas Nelson.-Ed.] Copyright 2004 Reed Business Information.