"The Chicken Sisters" by KJ Dell'Antonia ($8)
- What it's about: Set in Kansas, this book tells the story of two rival fried-chicken operations and the feud between the families that run them. Protagonist Amanda, a member of the Moore family who scandalously married a Pogociello, wants nothing more than to unite the two families — and she's willing to enlist the help of a Brooklyn-based reality-TV show to do just that.
- What Witherspoon says: "Three generations, two chicken shacks, and some big family secrets revealed . . . 'The Chicken Sisters' is a charming, hilarious, feel-good story about the kind of bonds & rivalries only sisters can share."