This will be the last of Vicki’s picks for good books to read and it looks like she ended with a bang, not a whimper. Starting next week books will be chosen by librarian Stephanie Overbay. When you see Vicki on the street, thank her for many years of good reading!

This week Vicki has chosen “THE FLOOD GIRLS” by Richard Fifield. Here is what some people have said about this book.

Reading this novel is like unwrapping the wackiest birthday gift you have ever received. “THE FLOOD GIRLS” is a heart-shaped box filled with broads, softballs, drunks, Jackie Collin’s paperbacks, music, guns and most vibrantly of all, humanity. I started this book laughing out loud. I finished it grieving and grateful. Richard Fifield is the handsomest writer in North American and perhaps its most compassionate. And speaking of Jackie Collins, she wrote, “THE FLOOD GIRLS” is a wild and crazy debut novel by a talented young writer. Edgy and original, it is worth the trip.”

Rickard Fifield’s wonderful novel sets your hair on fire and makes you laugh at the flames.

From the first page of “THE FLOOD GIRLS”, I knew Rickard Fifield was an extraordinary force of nature and his debut novel is a masterful tour de force. This novel is like Richard Russo plus E. Annie Prouix plus Truman Capote. If Capote were alive today and narrating a reality show about small town Montana on Bravo, you will be awed.

“THE FLOOD GIRLS” is available now at the Jeff Reichelt Memorial Library.