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The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle
Lois Battle
Penguin
February 2002
On Sale: January 29, 2002
384 pages
ISBN: 0142000361
EAN: 9780142000366
Paperback
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Welcome to Florabama, Alabama-a place where you can stop to
sip a co'cola or iced tea and think about money and love. If
you had 'em, you were free to think about other things. If
you didn't, you couldn't think about anything else.
"We've been screwed blue and tattooed," quips Hilly Pruitt,
upon hearing the news of the closing of Cherished Lady, the
local lingerie factory where she's worked a lifetime. The
same day the plant closes, Bonnie Duke Cullman, former-deb
turned Atlanta-society-wife, has herself been
downsized-right out of her marriage and picture-perfect
life. In an unlikely alliance, Bonnie, Hilly, and the rest
of the ex-bra seamstresses join forces in the "Displaced
Homemakers Program" at a podunk community college. Together
they endure a midlife survival course where the events of a
single year forever alter the way they see the world and
their places in it.
Hailed as "a fearless novelist"
(Pat Conroy) and "a peerless limner of strong, complex
women" (Anne Rivers Siddons), Lois Battle creates a rich
tapestry of female friendships in this funny, heartfelt, and
poignant story about the surprising power of a group of
small-town women.
"The book is so full of good
stuff it's hard to know where to start. It has a feel of
Places in the Heart, a little of Norma Rae, and maybe a
touch of Fried Green Tomatoes. But [it] stands on its own as
an intelligent, poignant, funny, wistful novel of
expectations, love and rebirth." (Richmond
Times-Dispatch)
"This is just the kind of book
you'd like to take onto the porch of a clapboard house, to
read curled up in a wicker chair with a glass of iced tea at
your side." (Houston Chronicle)
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