GEORGIA BOTTOMS by Mark Childress, 2011.

Full of charming small town humor and quirky characters, the story concerns Georgia Bottoms (family name was previously Butts) in Six Points, Alabama, a good looking woman who makes a living serving as the mistress to six important men in the town. She's a great cook, faithful churchgoer, a superlative hostess, and she takes care of her mother who has borderline dementia as well as watches out for her bum brother. Each of her gentlemen callers is unaware of her relationship with the others, and so her life is a juggling act that she has totally perfected and she makes sure that everything stays on schedule. Her callers leave her weekly generous gifts (money) to help with her lifestyle. However, when the preacher (her Saturday night lover), feeling a huge burden of guilt, threatens to spill the beans on their set up, her world begins to come crashing down. Then her annual September luncheon is totally ruined by 9/11, and when things just can't seem to get any worse, a strange young man arrives at her front door, and Georgia realizes the jig is up and it's time to face the music. Even her best friend and co-conspirator Krystal, the town's mayor, can't help her, as she has problems of her own, and one of them involves her own feelings about Georgia. This novel is all about human frailties and failings and misplaced values, done with great humor and insight.  A light, fun read, on the order of Fannie Flagg and Clyde Edgerton.