As Juts and Louise become Runnymede's most unlikely new career women, each faces her share of obstacles. Suddenly they are joint owners of The Curl 'n' Twirl beauty salon, where discriminating ladies meet to be primped, permed, and pampered while dishing the town's latest dirt. To pay the debt, the sisters choose a surprisingly new direction. The result is a huge brawl that litters Cadwalder's soda fountain with four hundred dollars' worth of broken glass. Now, in the fateful year of 1941, with America headed for war, the sisters are inching toward forty.and Juts is unwise enough to mention that unspeakable reality to her sister. We are life." In the picturesque town of Runnymede, everyone knows everyone else's business, and the madcap antics of the battling Hunsenmeir sisters, Julia (Juts) and Louise, have kept the whole town agog ever since they were children. "I'm afraid life is passing me by," Louise told her sister. In Loose Lips, Rita Mae Brown revisits Runnymede and the beloved characters introduced in Six of One and Bingo, serving up an exuberant portrayal of small-town sins and Southern mores, set against a backdrop of homefront life during World War II. If you crossed Mitford, North Carolina, with Peyton Place, you might come up with Runnymede, Maryland, the most beguiling of Southern towns.
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