Melissa Radketelevision star, podcaster, and bestselling author ofEat Cake. Be Bravewrites a love letter to the strong, opinionated Southern women who raised her and the women who surround each one of us.

Lucy and Ethel. Laverne and Shirley. Dorothy and Sophia and Blanche and Rose. Its the women around us who make us who we are, andChicken-Fried Womenis a celebration of them. Its about the women who raised us, made us, taught us to cook and clap back. Its the ones who prayed for us, raged at us and humbled us a notch or two when we needed it. Its about the women who gave us our first perm, told us we dont have legs for a skirt that short and admitted that cankles run in the family. These are the women who have encouraged us, teased us, chastisedus, andmortified us.And as they fill up the seats around our table, we realize we wouldnt have it any other way.

Theyre our Chicken-Fried Womenbattered on the outside, tender on the inside. Some are salty and a couple are Nashville Hot.

Filled with a hilarious cast of larger-than life women, this book explores why no one messes with Southern women and their hair, why the whole family comes along when you go bra shopping, why true crime and aquarobics brings ustogether,and how faith shapes usthrough it all.

Insightful, big-hearted and laugh-out-loud funny,Chicken-Fried Womenis a celebration of friendship, kinship and the women who made us this way.