"When Ryan Plummer asked Darlene Kindalia to have his baby, Darlene didn't remind him that they had already done the horizontal hokie-pokie and that procreation had never been their goal..." So begins the raucous follow-up to Viqui Litman's highly-praised novel, The Ladies Farm, as she returns to Texas hill country to bring us the hilarious "perils of Darlene," daughter of many-times-married hairdresser Rita.