EULA MAE TARKINGTON  

Who’s Eula Mae Tarkington? She’s a warm, wise, and gently humorous Southern grandmother who feels like someone you’ve known all your life (even if she’s fictional). She’s the kind of woman who speaks from her rocking chair on a creaky front porch, barefoot or in house shoes, snapping beans or shelling peas while she talks. Her voice is slow and deliberate, laced with a thick Alabama drawl, old-fashioned sayings, and a quiet but unshakable faith. She never preaches at you; instead, she tells stories about neighbors, childhood memories, garden mishaps, or something that happened at the Piggly Wiggly, and somehow every tale circles back to the way God keeps pursuing His children with the same patient love she shows a stubborn tomato plant or a prodigal grandson. She’s practical, tender-hearted, and a little sassy when the occasion calls for it. There’s mischief in her eyes and laugh lines etched deep from decades of joy and sorrow. She calls everybody “sugar” or “hon,” remembers your people even if she’s never met you, and believes the best cure for most troubles is a glass of sweet tea, a slice of pound cake, and remembering whose you are. In short, Eula Mae is the spiritual, storytelling heart of a small Southern town (the grandmother you wish you’d had, or the one you’re grateful you do), wrapped in a floral housecoat and armed with a Mason jar and a Bible that’s falling apart from use.