Welcome to the world, baby girl. Fannie Flagg. 1999.

Sweeping from the gender confines of late 1940s small-town America to the tough side of the New York media circus in the ‘70s, this book mines golden seams of goodness and gritty determination, prejudice and despair, love and survival, in the story of a young TV interviewer, Dena Nordstrom, whose future looks full of promise, whose present as an emotional mess, and whose past is marked by mystery.