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Ride a bull. Chat up a Senator. And get your homework in on time.
It's all in a day's work for a festival queen. If you assume all pageant queens are airheads, then welcome to the alternate universe of America's festival queens. With titles like Catfish Queen and Swine Queen, and royal duties ranging from leading parades to kissing frogs to doing PR for local industries, these hardworking girls represent the best of what America has to offer: local cultures, unique traditions, and the kind of can-do community spirit that makes Main Street sparkle with promise.
The Rhinestone Sisterhoodtakes us deep into the world of small-town festival queens to capture the true story of four "sisters of the sash"--the Frog, Fur, Cotton, and Cattle Queens of Louisiana--and their quest to win the ultimate crown, Queen of Queens. Traveling across the state, David Valdes Greenwood introduces us to Chelsea, Lauren, Kristen, and Brandy, local queens with lives full of public speaking, pig chases, and pageant politics. We ride with the girls during their one-year reign, where families and boyfriends can be as complicated as judges panels and a queens dreams may be at the mercy of a Category 4 hurricane.
High-spirited yet down-home, suspenseful and genuinely moving,The Rhinestone Sisterhood is,
at heart, a story of female friendship and rivalry, of triumph and disappointment. Anyone who has ever wanted to be a princess will feel right at home.
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Advance Praise for the Rhinestone Sisterhood
"The Rhinestone Sisterhood is a must-read for all True Queens--and you know who you are."
Jill Conner Browne #1 NY Times Bestselling Author of the Sweet Potato Queens book series.
"Vivid, compassionate, and very funny, with a meticulous eye for detail and a complete lack of condescension."
Stephen McCauley, author of The Object of My Affection.
"David Valdes Greenwood's charming and funny (and revelatory) window on the astonishing world of the festival queen circuit is
a diamond as big as the bayou." Mameve Medwed, author of How Elizabeth Barrett Browning Saved My Life.
"Hilarious, poignant, and surprisingly suspenseful, The Rhinestone Sisterhood leaves us in awe of the hard work that comes with the crown."
Celia Rivenbark, author of Belle Weather
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