Katt’s in the Cradle-Ginger Kolbaba & Christy Scannell

Katt’s in the Cradle
Ginger Kolbaba & Christy Scannell
Howard (Simon & Schuster), Feb 2009, $13.99
ISBN: 9781416543893

In Red River, knowing they always must be on super exemplary behavior, the four pastors’ wives desperately meet once a month for a couple hours at Lulu’s café figuratively as a MATTER OF LIFE AND DEATH to share what they cannot with others. The quartet has an opportunity to release emotions as they let their respective hair down.

Felicia Lopez-Morrison’s family is flying in from L.A. to help her though she prefers they stay home. Their feud is not endearing and could cause problems for her spouse Dave with their First Baptist Church congregation.

Mimi Plaisance’s alcoholic father has joined the overcrowded household already including his daughter, her spouse Mark and their four preadolescent kids. He refuses to abide by the house rules causing conflict with his family and the neighbors.

Jennifer Shore feels sandwiched as she struggles with being a mother to her adopted eleven month old baby at a time when her mother suffering from bi-polar is mentally deteriorating. She balances all that while working part-time at the Red River Community Church where her husband Sam is pastor.

Parents of two teens, Lisa and her husband Joel are caught in a church feud that looks ready to split the flock of the Red River Assembly God apart.

Once again the quartet meets to release some tension and reduce stress caused by being DESPERATE PASTORS’ WIVES sharing with one another (and readers) their trials and tribulations. Rotating perspective over the month of April between the four women, fans will gain insight as to how a pastor’s wife sees their role especially from inside the fish bowl with the flock outside looking in at them. Once again well written, the latest lunch at Lulu’s Café is an entertaining character driven tale that is more a series of vignettes than a novel, but fun and informative as talking to peers drowning in a similar sea helps keep a person afloat.

Harriet Klausner