"American Pie"

"Colorful, larger-than-life characters strut and stew with zest across an equally colorful terrain..."
-- "Kirkus Review"

" "American Pie" is delicious, literary treat...Well worth reading for both the humor and poignancy it portrays."
-- "The Nashville Tennessean"

"West is a major talent, and "American Pie" serves as proof...West's writing is a 'Discovery Channel' for and about people."
-- "Nashville Life"

I>She Flew The Coop"

"The author of the acclaimed "Crazy Ladies" has captured the color, eccentricities and tragicomedy that the best Southern writers do so well."
-- "Publishers Weekly, " starred review

"Funny, irreverent."
-- "New York Times Book Review"

"West has created characters who are so teeming with life you would have to stand back to create some breathing room if you met them."
-- "Washington Post Book World"

"Crazy Ladies"

"Not since Flannery O'Connor's first book has a debt by a young Southerner been so filled with wry humor and humanity, so precisely right in its idioms, and so distinctive in its voices."
-- "St. Petersburg Times"