ChickenFried Women, Melissa Radke
ChickenFried Women, Melissa Radke
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Chicken-Fried Women
Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way

Author: Melissa Radke

Narrator: Melissa Radke

Unabridged: 7 hr 24 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Worthy Books

Published: 04/22/2025

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included


Synopsis

From the bestselling author of Eat Cake. Be Brave, a love letter to the strong, opinionated Southern women who raised her and surround us all.

Lucy and Ethel. Laverne and Shirley. Dorothy, Sophia, Blanche, and Rose. Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of them: the women who raised us, taught us to cook and clap back. The ones who prayed for us, raged at us and humbled us a notch or two when we needed it. These are the women who have encouraged us, teased us, chastised us, and mortified us. And as they fill up the seats around our table, we realize we wouldn’t have it any other way.

They’re our Chicken-Fried Women—battered 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 us together, and how faith shapes us through it all. 

Insightful, big-hearted and laugh-out-loud funny, Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of friendship, kinship and the women who shaped us.
  

Reviews

Goodreads review by readwithmichele on April 27, 2025

BOOK: Chicken Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way AUTHOR: Melissa Radke PUB DATE: April 22, 205, by Worthy Books PAGES: 256 RATING: ⭐️⭐️⭐️⭐️✨ GENRE: Biography/Families Humor A special Thank You to Taylor Peterson at @WorthyBooks for reaching out to me directly. I also than......more

Goodreads review by Richard on February 07, 2025

It wasn't long ago that I reconnected with some of the cousins of my youth. These cousins, nearly all women and from the hills of Kentucky, were creators of some of my best childhood memories. They were, I believe, the "chicken-fried women" of which author Melissa Radke writes in her latest effort "......more

Goodreads review by Maggie on March 09, 2025

While I connected better to 'Eat Cake, Be Brave' more than 'Chicken Fried Women's I think it was the timing for me. Several chapters absolutely hit my funny bone and had me rereading excerpts to my coworkers in the break room, or my mom & sister... but other sections missed the mark for me, or were......more

Goodreads review by Kate on April 30, 2025

Yes! This was my introduction to Melissa Radke and her band of babes. These women live among each other with unfiltered boldness but also tenderness and love. We should all have these women. We should all BE these women! Great job, Melissa. I'm going to go find your other book.......more

Goodreads review by Katherine on March 30, 2025

Buzzwordathon- April- animal in title......more


Quotes

"Hilarious. Could barely breathe I was laughing so hard."—My Trainer, On Ab Day

"There better not be one word about me in this book."—My Mom

"You're writing another book? Why?"—Cashier at Chick-Fil-A

"I laughed. I cried. I cheered. It was a roller coaster of emotions."—A Woman Who Watched Me Get On a float

"It surprises me very little that she used the word 'Fried' in her title."—My Doctor