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Acclaim for Michael Lee West "American Pie" "Colorful, larger-than-life characters strut and stew with zest across an equally colorful terrain..." -- "Kirkus Review" " "American Pie" is delicious, literary treat...Well worth reading for both the humor and poignancy it portrays." -- "The Nashville Tennessean" "West is a major talent, and "American Pie" serves as proof...West's writing is a 'Discovery Channel' for and about people." -- "Nashville Life" I>She Flew The Coop" "The author of the acclaimed "Crazy Ladies" has captured the color, eccentricities and tragicomedy that the best Southern writers do so well." -- "Publishers Weekly, " starred review "Funny, irreverent." -- "New York Times Book Review" "West has created characters who are so teeming with life you would have to stand back to create some breathing room if you met them." -- "Washington Post Book World" "Crazy Ladies" "Not since Flannery O'Connor's first book has a debt by a young Southerner been so filled with wry humor and humanity, so precisely right in its idioms, and so distinctive in its voices." -- "St. Petersburg Times"