Chicken-Fried Women
Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way
$58.32
- Hardcover
256 pages
- Release Date
23 June 2025
Summary
From the bestselling author of Eat Cake. Be Brave, a love letter to the strong, opinionated Southern women who raised her and surround us all.
Lucy and Ethel. Laverne and Shirley. Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche, and Rose. Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of them: the women who raised us, taught us to cook and clap back. The ones who prayed for us, raged at us and humbled us a notch or two when we needed it. These are the women who have encouraged us, teased us, chastise…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9781546008248 |
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| ISBN-10: | 1546008241 |
| Author: | Melissa Radke |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown & Company |
| Imprint: | Worthy Books |
| Format: | Hardcover |
| Number of Pages: | 256 |
| Release Date: | 23 June 2025 |
| Weight: | 440g |
| Dimensions: | 230mm x 148mm x 26mm |
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“Hilarious. Could barely breathe I was laughing so hard.”–My Trainer, On Ab Day“I laughed. I cried. I cheered. It was a roller coaster of emotions.”–A Woman Who Watched Me Get On a float“It surprises me very little that she used the word ‘Fried’ in her title.”–My Doctor“There better not be one word about me in this book.”–My Mom“You’re writing another book? Why?”–Cashier at Chick-Fil-A
About The Author
Melissa Radke
Melissa Radke is a best-selling author, speaker, and television personality who has charmed audiences worldwide with her hilarious and candid insights on life, love, and the complexities of the modern world. Known as the HGIC-Head Girlfriend in Charge-Melissa has been cheering women on since 2016 and sharing tips on what to buy, what to wear, how to LAUGH, and do your hair with her online community of over 1.1 million followers.
Originally from East Texas, Melissa spent over fifteen years in Nashville, Tennessee, having graduated from Belmont University with a bachelor’s degree in commercial music performance. With a love of writing about real life, parenting, and the importance of learning our identity, Melissa published her national best-selling book, Eat Cake. Be Brave., in 2018, released by Grand Central Publishing/Hachette Book Group. She was also the star of the family-friendly television show The Radkes on the USA Network. The show was an unscripted sitcom that focused on her big, loud Southern family and all of their charm.
A mom to two and a wife to one, Melissa embodies the perfect Southern blend of sweet tea and hairspray. She married her college sweetheart, David, in 1994. Melissa, David, and their teenage children, Remi and Rocco, live in the small East Texas town where she was born and raised, Lufkin, Texas.
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