My Biscuit Baby
My Biscuit Baby
My Biscuit Baby
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Description
Description
Politics, pork, environmental activism, and a request from a deceased college friend all converge when the University moves to sell Battle Park to developers. Lassie's wife, Pearl, puts her freedom on the line to protect the beloved forest. Pearl's strong-arm defense of the 93-acre treasure leads to her arrest and pulls Lassie into trading favors with Gov. Emelyn Wheeler just as the governor is campaigning for reelection and fighting off threats from competitors of her chain of Miss Emmy's Barbecue Shacks.
With Battle Park imperiled, Lassie receives news that an old friend from Connor Dorm, H.F. Turley, has passed away. H.F. had been the lead singer in Snow Camp, their Connor Dorm band. In his will, HF asked Lassie to produce a memorial service in Battle Park's Forest Theatre featuring songs Snow Camp played at Springfest '82.
The events leave Lassie and Pearl navigating multiple hazards while trying to protect Battle Park's future and chasing after the long-lost Springfest '82 tapes. As bulldozers rumble at Battle Park, new unexpected global threats emerge. Siler, owner of Pig Farm Tavern, opens his bar to Lassie and Pearl to plot their course and lends his charm to boost Miss Emmy's campaign.
Critical Reviews
Critical Reviews
"Better than homemade cheese biscuits!"
-Gwenyfar Rohler, Old Books on Front Street, Wilmington, NC
"Reading John Bare's My Biscuit Baby is the next best thing to wandering amongst the old stone walls of Chapel Hill. This is a story of politics, BBQ wars, international intrigue, and love. It is also a jukebox of memory-of chicken and cheese biscuits, blue cups at He's Not Here, jamming at Cat's Cradle, listening to Liquid Pleasure, walking in Battle Park, and watching the sunrise from the stone bench at Gimghoul Castle. Literary great Thomas Wolfe once wrote, 'You can't go home again'. Well, it turns out that you can and John Bare's jaunty, funny, and authentically Southern story takes us all home-to college, to friendship, to songs past, and to a time and place where so many of us found enlightenment."
-Steven J. Tepper, UNC '89 & executive director emeritus of UNC-Chapel Hill's 200th Anniversary
"My Biscuit Baby is a 90-proof tale flavored with Troll's, Upper Deck and Springfest memories, as Lassie James and friends bury a Tar Heel classmate and defend against new threats to a Chapel Hill treasure. The story is a love letter to Battle Park."
-Steve Ferguson, Morrison Dorm Resident Emeritus
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