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Also by Pearl Cleage:

Seen It All and Done the Rest, March 2008
Hardcover
We Speak Your Names: A Celebration, May 2006
Hardcover
Babylon Sisters, March 2006
Paperback
Some Things I Never Thought I'd Do, March 2006
Mass Market Paperback
Baby Brother's Blues, March 2006
Hardcover
I Wish I Had a Red Dress, July 2002
Paperback

I WISH I HAD A RED DRESS
By: Pearl Cleage

Harper
July 2002
On Sale: July 1, 2002
336 pages
ISBN: 0380804883
EAN: 9780380804887
Paperback
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Fiction | Multicultural African-American

Since Joyce Mitchell was widowed five years ago, she's kept herself occupied by running the Sewing Circus, an all-girl group she founded to provide badly needed services to young women at risk, many of whom are single mothers. But some nights, home alone, she has to admit that something is missing. And soon she may not even have the Sewing Circus to fill up her life, as the state legislature has decided not to fund the group.

Feeling defeated and pessimistic, Joyce reluctantly agrees to dinner at the home of her best friend, Sister, and finds not only a perfect meal but a tall, dark stranger named Nate Anderson. His unexpected presence touches a chord in Joyce that she thought her heart had forgotten how to play.

Suddenly, Joyce feels ready to grab a sexy red dress and the life that goes with it . . . if she can keep her girls safe from the forces—useless boyfriends and government agencies—alike against them.