Novelist Mary Kay Andrews and her beachy-keen cookbook

For Atlanta novelist Mary Kay Andrews, life’s a beach and then you …

Well, then you wiggle out of that sticky wet swimsuit and dive into a nice cold bowl of Beyond the Grave Chicken Salad.

Or you call some friends, ice down the beer, grab the biggest stock pot you can find and fix Low Country Boil: a peel-and-eat mess of crab, shrimp, sausage, fresh summer corn, new potatoes and Vidalia onions.