"Born in Tennessee and raised in Alaska, Wall has the southerner's warm gift for metaphor and a northerner's cool aptitude for telling it like it is." These words from Kirkus Reviews sum up the sparkling work of Paula Wall, humorist, former newspaper columnist, and accomplished author of the acclaimed national bestseller The Rock Orchard.

In her latest offering, The Wilde Women, Paula Wall returns to her Southern roots, to the same fertile soil that nurtured and delivered The Rock Orchard. Here, readers meet Pearl Wilde, one of the unpredictable daughters in the unforgettable family of Wildes. When Pearl discovers her sister, Doll, dressed up in her favorite pair of shoes - and in a compromising position with Pearl's fiancé - she catches the first train out of town. Five years later, Pearl returns home set on revenge, with claws razor sharp and a demeanor so cool the citizens of Five Points doubt she has sweat glands.

This second novel from Paula Wall is the funny, sexy, and bitingly smart story of how love can turn to hate like wine can turn to vinegar - and how one wise, wild woman can turn that bitterness into a sweet, delicious tart.