Tim Sandlin Book order (chronological)

From the author of Crybaby Ranch , who ?writes with insight, humor, and complete control? (Tim Sandlin).On the night of her twenty-sixth wedding anniversary, AnnieLaurie McFall does the unthinkable. Without a word to her husband Jess, she walks out on their celebration dinner and catches a flight to Florida. It?s time for a sabbatical from marriage?and some serious soul-searching. So she sets herself up in the small coastal town of Hibiscus and creates the perfect six-month retreat to reimagine a storybook ending that could actually come true with Jess still her prince. What she discovers along the way is far more surprising, outrageous, and just plain fun than she ever expects.

The lighthearted, amusing, and touching story of preteen wisdom, adult immaturity, and the fine line between them is related by thirteen-year-old Sam Callahan and his misbehaving mother, Lydia.

An amusing new novel by the author of "Social Blunders". It's 1963 and 13-year-old Sam Callahan and his tart-tongued, divorced, misbehaving mother, Lydia, must cope as best they can, after they are banished to the hick town of GroVont, Wyoming, by Lydia's Southern gentleman father. "Funny, shocking, downright revolting, and occasionally sad".--"Los Angeles Times Book Review".