The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary and Sewing Circle

Authors: Battle, Lois
Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group
BISAC/Subject: FIC019000
ISBN: 9781101175347, Related ISBNs: 0142000361, 014311932X, 1101175346, 9780142000366, 9780143119326
Classification: Fiction
Number of pages: 384,
Audience: General/trade
Synopsis:
  • A New York Times bestseller
  • A Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club Selection

    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.

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