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The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle

ISBN: 0142000361

Title: The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle

Author: Lois Battle

KDL Description:

A close-knit group of settled small-town ladies bands together to help each other through their most difficult life passage — middle age.

Amazon Description:

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.