Trouble in Texas

Snarky in the Suburbs, Book 2

By: Sherry Claypool Kuehl

Narrated by: Connie Shabshab

In this book, the second in the Snarky in the Suburbs series, Wynn Butler is ready to kill her mother...or at the very least demand she gets a psych evaluation and an MRI. On Wynn’s yearly pilgrimage to Trask, Texas, to visit her parents, what she hoped would be a relaxing visit (not counting the family reunion which has all the charm of a zombie apocalypse) has turned into a Texas-sized, hot mess!

Her 69-year-old mother Gwynn Crockett Martin has become an entrepreneur and opened up a cupcake bakery that seems to be doing double duty as a halfway house for economically battered Junior League dropouts. If that’s not enough to make Wynn want to turn tail and run home, her mom is hell-bent on convincing her to “heed the call of Jesus” and come to the aid of a woman that made Wynn miserable in high school - Sara Beth Bishop. And by aid, Wynn’s mother means concoct a plan to exact epic revenge on Sara Beth’s lying, cheating, spray-tanning, money-stealing ex-husband and his new wife, snob of the millennium, Yale Greenly.

Things go from bad to worse when Wynn finds herself embroiled in a scheme that involves breaking and entering, theft, assault, livestock wrangling, killer mold, impersonating a maid, hair spray bomb fabrication, and crashing the town’s poshest society event of the year - the Mohair Palace Pageant.

If Wynn can survive this visit home without doing time in the ER, jail, or both, it will be a miracle! Hang on to your hat and saddle up for a retribution rodeo - or as Wynn’s mom calls it - “justice served up Lone Star style”.

©2015 Sherry Claypool Kuehl (P)2022 Sherry Claypool Kuehl

Delightful Read

“Trouble in Texas” is exactly the hilarious distraction I was looking for in a book. The author takes the reader through a series of encounters with friends and family from a Southern small town and proceeds to skewer with hilarious precision each character based on various ill- fated past encounters. Imagine going back to your home town to discover your eccentric and outspoken Mom had befriended abs employed your high school “frenemies”. The plot moves quickly and you can’t stop wanting more of the narrator’s witty and sarcastic impressions during her time back home in small town Texas.

Texas with a twist!

Great read! Light, funny, take your mind off your troubles… others have bigger problems! Always enjoy these books! Keep writing!

The characters were awesome! I could picture them all.

Loved this book! So descriptive, it pulls you in with the family dynamic, old high school rivalries, etc.

Very funny

Just the ticket- a fun story, and great escape from a stressful day. I have read three of Sherry Claypool Kuehl’s books. They were all worth a read and made me laugh.

The perfect end-of-summer-read.

Are you looking for the perfect revenge fantasy after a summer of playing sherpa to your children and their numerous traveling sports or other organized group activity and that ever present Gawd-awful over-achieving sports/dance/gymnastics/cheer parent? Snarky’s got your back in the form of Wynn. She speaks truth to every eye rolling, deep sighing, face palming parent. Put in your ear buds, head out for a walk and get ready to laugh. Thx, Snarky. 😎