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The “American Pop: A Novel” is bubbly delicious but ultimately more bubbles than substance. Snowden Wright is the fantastic author of this novel. This book is a highly recommended generational Southern family saga involving a cola dynasty. The Forster family is the founder of the world’s first major soft-drink company, the Panola Cola Company, and this is the story of their rise and fall across a century. Houghton Forster is the founder who developed a delicious fizzy drink with a secret ingredient that helped create a cola dynasty in Mississippi and propelled him and his family to the upper reaches of society as the demand for PanCola swept across the country. Houghton and his wife, Annabelle, have four children, Montgomery, Harold, and twins Ramsey and Lance. The chapters do not follow a chronological timeline but jump from different periods in time. Two things are important to notice and use while reading dates at the opening of chapters will set you in the right time period and the family tree at the beginning of the book will assist in identifying the characters until you know them more intimately. While all the characters may seem overwhelming at the beginning, if you stay with the novel the narrative will all start to make sense and fall into a timeline. It is rather essential to take it slow at first and learn who the characters are and where they fit into the family and the saga.