Hypnotizing Chickens

Leaving home was the best decision Chrys Pickett ever made. She lost her rural accent, got a PhD. and made something of herself, promising she’d never go back to her roots. But when your Nanny needs you and your heart has been smashed to pieces, promises are easily dismissed.

The loud, affectionate family welcome and simple Appalachian life?cookouts and church, chickens and dogs in the yard?is just what Chrys needs. She’s done with love and family is what matters. Nanny is the one who cooked and cleaned for her when she was little and she doesn’t mind caring for Nanny...just for the summer.

What she doesn’t expect are unsettling family secrets?and being hit between the eyes with an intense attraction to Nanny’s physical therapist.

Hilarious and poignant, this new novel by Lambda Literary Award winner Julia Watts chronicles a woman's struggle to make sense of who she has become as she is found by love in the place least expected.

A native of southeastern Kentucky, Julia Watts is the author of the Lambda Literary Award-winning Finding H.F. and many other works including lesbian romance, lesbian erotica and young teen paranormal. Watts is a two-time recipient of grants from the Kentucky Foundation for Women and recently completed an M.F.A. in Writing from Spalding University. She lives, writes and teaches in Knoxville, Tennessee.