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Saving CeeCee Honeycutt, Beth Hoffman
number of voters: 6
percentage of voters who finished the book: 100
highest rating: 8.5
lowest rating: 6
average rating: 7.167
*****
Early on in Saving
CeeCee Honeycutt, twelve-year-old Cecelia describes a moment with her
mentally ill mother in this way:
“We whirled through the living room, into the dining room,
and around the table. Right in the middle of a spin, Momma abruptly stopped….”
That one moment symbolizes life for CeeCee from that moment
on. Momma stops—run over by an ice cream truck—but CeeCee keeps right on
spinning, through a whirlwind of eccentric characters, bizarre situations, and
Southern charm.
Bewildered and bemused, heartbroken and confused, CeeCee is
both the observer and observed. Her life becomes a parade of events: She buries
her mother, is whisked away to Georgia by a long-lost aunt, commits (in her own
mind, at least) an assault by garden slug, becomes a confidante to her
housekeeper, and on and on it goes.
The book unfolds like a set of short stories, dreamlike,
sometimes nightmarish, but always completely, unmistakably, quintessentially
Southern. A fine summer read to take you for a spin when the world around you
has stopped.
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