Targeting the new blue working single mom avec teenager, Jacobs plays "what if" for the pre-menopausal females of the world who still have time to read a whole book.

Main character Georgia, is the queen bee of a community based on a knitting club. Knitting? How fresh - except it's an idea Bust Magazine popularized...oh, about 10 years ago. (Insert shout out to Bust's brain trust, Laurie and Debbie, you continue to rock.)

Heaven forbid a man should enter their world. Yes, it's Georgia's ex, who wants to play a bigger part of his daughter's life. Does he have an ulterior motive? After all, you know all men think about is s-e-x. Suddenly the sistas of the club have a drama to deal with. Hooray.

Hype equals sales. And yes, the film deal has already been inked, with Julia Roberts slated to play the lead.

The South is a layered series of woven interplays of family and class and culture, a place where people are smart without showing off, where strangers actually stop to share the kind of thoughtful conversation where you feel obligated to say something important or interesting.

In the South, there are many stories that remain untold "until you're old enough to understand" and at least three different versions of the truth. And of course, you have numerous distant cousins, including folks of a different skin tone.

Despite its reputation courtesy of the media north of the Mason-Dixon, the South is not composed entirely of rednecks vilifying the downtrodden. This is clearly evidenced in the Pulitzer Prize winning novel by Alabama native, Harper Lee, based on a young widowed lawyer, struggling to raise his children with a moral compass in the segregated South.