Between, Georgia (2006)

At birth, the daughter of 15-year-old Hazel Crabtree is pawned off on neighbor Stacia Frett — innocently reigniting a feud between two rural families. ''The only way I could have prevented the war,'' young Nonny remarks later, ''would have been to strangle myself with my own umbilical cord before I pulled my first breath.'' At age 30, with her marriage crumbling and hostilities between the Crabtrees and Fretts escalating, Nonny tries to mend fences. The female characters — from resilient Stacia to Nonny's ''half crazy, all mean'' biological grandmother — are drawn with humor and shrewdness. Though the plot of Between, Georgia mostly turns predictably, Joshilyn Jackson's tough Southern gals surprise and delight.