Deborah Ford, Grits Friends Are Forevah

Grits Friends Are Forevah: A Southern-Style Celebration of Women

Deborah Ford

Plume, Feb 2007, $14.00

ISBN: 0641783558

This is an amusing-yet-adulating look at Grit Girls of all ages. The book provides insight as to how to recognize whether that female friend is forevah grit or just a catty short time discard. Also known as steel magnolias due to the movie or Southern Belles north of the Mason-Dixon line that in the twenty-first century is more in the minds of people than on maps. Explaining the difference between Instant GRITS, Seasoned GRITS, and Steeled GRITS, Ya Ya Sister Deborah Ford, as she did with the previous Grits guide, adoringly explains that GRITS are simply Girls Raised in the South who know her females buds and duds better than the spouse does. This reference book contains a deep, underlying message that everyone needs friends, but done with a fun look at female southern living through the eyes of a native GRITS card-carrying member.

Harriet Klausner