Teaser Tuesday: Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant

Teaser Tuesday is a weekly bookish meme hosted by Miz B of A Daily Rhythm. Anyone can participate, just do the following:

• Grab your current read and open to a random page
• Share two (2) "teaser" sentences from somewhere on that page.
• BE CAREFUL NOT TO INCLUDE SPOILERS! (Make sure what you share doesn't give too much away! You don't want to ruin the book for others!)
• Share the title and the author so that other TT participants can add the book to their TBR lists if they like your teasers.

The ravages of malaria continued into the 1940s and during bad outbreaks, a Delta planter might propose marriage to his belle by saying, "Miss Lucy, may I have the honor of buying your coffin?"

~ 3% through on my Kindle

I drove there from Martha's house on a hot June morning, passing bizarre natural sculpture gardens created by the invasive kudzu vine. It can grow up to 12 inches a day under optimal conditions, and not many places in the world can out-fecund the Mississippi Delta in early summer.

~ 6% through on my Kindle

Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant is due out October 13, 2015 from Simon and Schuster.

Would you keep reading? What's your teaser this week? Share it or a link in the comments so we can check it out. Happy Reading!

Disclaimer: Quotes are from an ARC and may appear differently in the final edition.