Waiting on Wednesday ~ The First Day of the Rest of My Life; Cathy Lamb

Waiting on Wednesday is a weekly event hosted by Jill at Breaking the Spine that spotlights upcoming releases that we are eagerly anticipating! Want to participate? Post your own WOW entry on your blog, and leave your link at Breaking the Spine. This week's pick is an author I've enjoyed in the past. Her 2010 novel Such a Pretty Face, was one I liked a lot. Here is some info about her summer of 2011 book: 

The First Day of the Rest of Her Life; Cathy Lamb

(Summer - 2011)

The Gunshot Anniversary is coming up. Those six gunshots have echoed throughout my entire life. They grabbed everyone’s attention in the courthouse pretty darn quick, too. Bang, bang, bang! There was the expected cacophony of panic with people screaming and diving to the floor, attorneys scattering, the jury ducking, reporters squawking, photographers scrambling for a photo, and the Sheriff barreling towards the gunman. Or, more properly should I say, the gunwoman. The gunwoman was my momma. Marie Elise O’Shea was a well dressed shooter. She wore her light pink dress with embroidered white daisies circling the trim, matching cotton candy pink heels, red lipstick, liquid black liner that tilted up at the corners, and a yellow ribbon holding back her thick black hair. “Yellow means there’s still hope in this pickled, wrinkled, warped world, sugar,” she’d told me. “Yellow means there’s a new tomorrow scootin’ around the corner, you just wait.”