Audiobooks by Melissa Radke

Chicken-Fried Women: Friendship, Kinship, and the Women Who Made Us This Way

Melissa Radke-television star, podcaster, and bestselling author of Eat Cake. Be Brave-writes a love letter to the strong, opinionated Southern women who raised her and the women who surround each one of us.   Lucy and Ethel. Laverne and Shirley. Dorothy and Sophia and Blanche and Rose. It's the women around us who make us who we are, and Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of them. It's about the women who raised us, made us, taught us to cook and clap back. It's the ones who prayed for us, raged at us and humbled us a notch or two when we needed it. It's about the women who gave us our first perm, told us we "don't have legs for a skirt that short" and admitted that cankles run in the family. These are the women who have encouraged us, teased us, chastised us, and mortified us. And as they fill up the seats around our table, we realize we wouldn't have it any other way. They're our Chicken-Fried Women-battered on the outside, tender on the inside. Some are salty and a couple are Nashville Hot.  Filled with a hilarious cast of larger-than life women, this book explores why no one messes with Southern women and their hair, why the whole family comes along when you go bra shopping, why true crime and aquarobics brings us together, and how faith shapes us through it all.  Insightful, big-hearted and laugh-out-loud funny, Chicken-Fried Women is a celebration of friendship, kinship and the women who made us this way.   

Melissa Radke (Author), Melissa Radke, TBD (Narrator)

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Eat Cake. Be Brave

My name is Melissa Radke, and there is a very real chance you have no idea who I am or why I wrote a book. But admit it, you're curious! Even though millions of people seem to like watching my videos bemoaning the trials of parenting, marriage, French braiding, faith, and living life as an anti-aging female, you may still be wondering who let me write a book. I mean, books are written by people who have been interviewed by Gayle King and say things like, "You see, Gayle, I was having a root canal and I literally died in the chair. I saw heaven. Also, when I came back to earth I could speak Mandarin." Yeah, that didn't happen to me. No Mandarin. Though I have been known to break out in song! (My voice was once described as a "ray of light in a dark world" . . . but I think my dad was being a little dramatic.) Although if Gayle King were to ever ask me I would tell her: "I wrote this book between taking my kids to the local pool and picking out flip-flops at Old Navy, and the only metaphysical moment I experienced came right after I looked directly into one of those mirrors with 10x magnification." I wrote this book because when I turned 41 I made a decision to be brave. To live brave -bolder and freer. You see, I thought our lives were supposed to change when we turned 40...but mine didn't. Yet every piece of it changed when I turned 41; when I set out to prove that it wasn't too late for me, that careless words wouldn't stunt me and rejection would not stop me. And maybe, just maybe, it will take you reading about the journey I took to finding my sense of self-worth in order for you to rightfully believe in yours. This book is about how all the years of my life led up to the one that changed it. So, cut a big slice and raise a fork... Here's to bravery. Here's to courage. Here's to cake. (And not the crappy kind, like carrot.) **Contact Customer Service for Additional Material**

Melissa Radke (Author), Author (Narrator)

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