Temple Secrets: Southern Humorous Fiction: For Lovers of Southern Authors and Southern Novels, by Susan Gabriel
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Temple Secrets: Southern Humorous Fiction: For Lovers of Southern Authors and Southern Novels, by Susan Gabriel
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Fans of The Help and Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil will delight in this Amazon #1 bestselling comic novel of family secrets by acclaimed writer, Susan Gabriel (The Secret Sense of Wildflower, a Kirkus Reviews Best Book of 2012). Every family has secrets, but the elite Temple family of Savannah has more than most. To maintain their influence, they've been documenting the indiscretions of other prestigious southern families, dating as far back as the Civil War. When someone begins leaking these tantalizing tidbits to the newspaper, the entire city of Savannah, Georgia is rocking with secrets.The current keeper of the secrets and matriarch of the Temple clan is Iris, a woman of unpredictable gastrointestinal illnesses and an extra streak of meanness that even the ghosts in the Temple mansion avoid. When Iris unexpectedly dies, the consequences are far flung and significant, not only to her family--who get in line to inherit the historic family mansion--but to Savannah itself.At the heart of the story is Old Sally, an expert in Gullah folk magic, who some suspect cast a voodoo curse on Iris. At 100 years of age, Old Sally keeps a wise eye over the whole boisterous business of secrets and the settling of Iris's estate.In the Temple family, nothing is as it seems, and everyone has a secret.
Temple Secrets: Southern Humorous Fiction: For Lovers of Southern Authors and Southern Novels, by Susan Gabriel- Amazon Sales Rank: #8088 in eBooks
- Published on: 2015-03-02
- Released on: 2015-03-02
- Format: Kindle eBook
Review "Gabriel unfolds her story deftly, with well-paced revelations about the complicated relationships between the mansion's white and black inhabitants...Gabriel also evokes the Spanish moss-covered atmosphere of ghost-filled Savannah, and the Temple mansion in particular, with satisfying spookiness...The author's thoughtfulness about masters and slaves, employers and servants, and family relations also contributes to a satisfying read. Savannah's atmosphere, culture, and history flavor this engaging tale of intertwined families." - Kirkus Reviews "When some people have far too much time, wealth and power and not enough humanness and courage? Oh, the answers Gabriel provides are as delicious as Violet's peach turnovers, and twice as addicting! I highly recommend this novel. - T.T. Thomas "I love books about the South and this one did not disappoint! I hope to see more by this author." - J. Haag It was difficult to put this book down. I can't wait to read another one of her books! - Elizabeth McClellan "Loved loved loved this book. The characters were lovable and hilarious. The only bad thing I can say is that it had to end...hopefully she'll write a sequel." - Jumi "A large cast of colorful characters, including Temple family ghosts, Spanish moss, and an old Savannah mansion . . . what more could you ask for in southern fiction! I recommend this wonderful novel, complete with lots of plot twists and turns." - Susan Snowden "I could not put the book down! Loved it!" - Julia Cato "The plot keeps you guessing, and it is a book that everyone in my book club enjoyed. If you like Southern Fiction, and mysteries, this one will engage you." - Rosie Place
About the Author Susan Gabriel is an acclaimed writer who lives in the mountains of North Carolina. Her novel, The Secret Sense of Wildflower, earned a starred review ("for books of remarkable merit") from Kirkus Reviews: "A quietly powerful story, at times harrowing but ultimately a joy to read." It was also selected as one of Kirkus Reviews' Best Books of 2012. Her latest novel is Temple Secrets (southern humorous fiction), and she is also the author of Grits, Ghosts and Grace: Southern Short Stories, Fearless Writing for Women, Quentin and the Cave Boy, Circle of the Ancestors and Seeking Sara Summers which has garnered international attention since its publication in 2008. Discover more about Susan at susangabriel.com
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10 of 10 people found the following review helpful. The Help meets Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil . . . By Novelist Imperious and regal, snobbish and intemperate, Iris Temple comes from a long line of patriarchs in a wealthy Savannah family—and she won’t let you forget it. Eighty years old and still terrorizing everyone from her help to the denizens of the city’s high society, Iris possesses a book containing details about two centuries’ worth of the misdeeds of everyone who has ever done something wrong—a book that if discovered would cause scandals and breakdowns, breakups and social exclusion.Queenie is Iris’s personal assistant and half sister. Iris’s father was known for his dalliances, especially with the help, and Queenie is the result. Iris, however, will never let Queenie forget that she is “not a real Temple” because of her mixed African American ancestry. Though Queenie is all-suffering and patient, she harbors secret thoughts of Iris’s demise—thoughts shared by her niece, Violet, who works in the stately Temple mansion as a maid and cook. Queenie may put up with Iris, suffering Iris’s legendary flatulence that can clear a room and often does, but she’s got her sister’s number.Then something terrible happens: someone gets ahold of The Book of Secrets and starts publishing one a day in the local newspaper, throwing the entire community into a tizzy.The day she meets her lawyer to have her will changed, Iris has a stroke and falls into a coma. Her estranged daughter Rose, who has hardly been home in 25 years, returns to say goodbye to her mother. And Queenie’s mother, Old Sally, a hundred years old and the keeper of the Gullah traditions, makes her way to the Temple mansion to help Iris cross over to the other side. She fails.In the finest traditions of Southern storytelling, Susan Gabriel has created a lovely novel whose characters populate the story as if they are alive. With Savannah as the backdrop, the women of TEMPLE SECRETS—Queenie and Rose, Iris and Violet and Old Sally—confront the secrets that tear them apart and ultimately pull them together. Like a delicious combination of THE HELP and MIDNIGHT IN THE GARDEN OF GOOD AND EVIL, the audio version of TEMPLE SECRETS—narrated by the author in an accent reminiscent of the places she paints in the novel—will fill many hours with the pleasure of a tale well told.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful. Something Sticky in Savannah: Hang on to Your Parasol! By T. T. Thomas Everyone in Savannah high society seems to hope Iris Temple dies sooner rather than later. Almost no one likes her, and everyone has felt the sting from the crack of her verbal whip.For generations she has held the Temple Book of Secrets as her primary weapon of potential mass destruction. This book, a family heirloom in which generations of Temples have kept copious notes on the VERY bad things everyone else in Savannah’s high society did throughout the decades, is Iris’ social sword. Her lousy temperament and unapologetically insufferable air of condescension is another. Gabriel has outdone herself in the perfectly on- point depiction of Iris Temple. What a masterful character creation! Although she’s not present for much of the book, Iris Temple touches every moment and every one else in it.Somebody is putting a “secret a day” in the classifieds, and Iris is getting apoplectic about it. No one knows who is doing this as the actual book of Temple Secrets is under lock and key. Is there a second copy somewhere? From the top of the Savannah social heap to the high bottom, tempers flare, generations of moral superiority comes crashing down on heads too shocked to thwart the blows, and even Iris’ immediate family thinks Iris has lost it. Once again. Susan Gabriel has captured the song of the South and Savannah as she plays both sides of the verbal harp with expert timing, authentic dialog and engrossing narrative. The characters approach one another with a quirky queasiness that is laugh-out-loud funny just on the face of it.Gabriel writes books that are an easy pleasure to read. An audio version of this book would be great! As readers, we hear the chords and melody simultaneously as we go seamlessly back and forth amongst the singularly sensitive, the often unintentionally humorous and the regionally cranky Southern psyche. Add money, a list of righteous purveyors of interracial insemination, some of it in flagrante delicto, and sibling and half-sibling rivalry of biblical proportions that goes back generations. Gabriel gives us the setting and masterfully-plied tension that makes Temple Secrets literary music.Temple Secrets is a page-turner of a story that goes deeper than most on the subjects of equality, courage and dignity. There were five or six characters to love and a few to loathe. Gabriel draws Queenie, Violet, Spud, Rose and Rose’s lesbian daughter and her lover precisely, with a narrative dexterity that is amazingly and perfectly sparse while achieving an impact of fullness and depth. Their interactions with the outside world and one another are priceless moments of hilarious asides, well-aimed snipes and a plethora of sarcasms.I especially loved the character of 100-year-old Old Sally. Her very existence is the product of the one-sided passions between Old Sally’s African-American mother and one of the White Temple forbearers. In fact, at least four generations of her family are the product of Temple patriarchal entitlement. Sally decides enough is enough of this Temple dynasty. When Old Sally reinserts herself back into the family that so forcefully created her own, she’s got some Gullah spell casting to do. If anyone else knows, no one is saying.What happens when the inevitable inequities come about amongst the Haves, the Have Nots and the Damn-Right-I-Will-Have? When some people have far too much time, wealth and power and not enough humanness and courage? Oh, the answers Gabriel provides are as delicious as Violet’s peach turnovers, and twice as addicting! I highly recommend this novel.
3 of 3 people found the following review helpful. Southern ways at its worst and its best.....beautifully written. Loved it!!! By Cynseer Booklover As a Southern woman, I am always drawn to books about the Southern way of life and its many complexities. Susan Gabriel has written a book that lets the reader into a world filled with taboos, traditions that are not something that is to be bragged about, into the lives of those held hostage to these secrets. I loved this book....reading it until the very end. I found myself thinking of growing up in Texas through the years, 64 years to be exact, and how many changes have taken place that have been a blessing. I grew up living with Civil War history, with the emancipation that came through Martin Luther King's endeavors, with how society still deals with archaic traditions on how people must act and live. In this book, Temple Secrets, I was reminded of those days. Of things that are still being dealt with within our society. And I applaud Ms. Gabriel, for the ability to write a book that makes the reader think, feel and leave the end of the story....wanting more....and with things that the reader can still ponder upon. Kudos to the author for a fabulous read. I heartily recommend this book!!! Please give readers more of the South.
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