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"Welcome to Florabama, Alabama. Off the main highway and down the dirt roads, small plots of cotton and soy flank brighter crops of jonquil and daffodil. You can sip a Co'cola or iced tea and think about money and love. 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. And the latter couldn't be more true for Hilly Pruitt.".
""We've been screwed blue and tattooed," quips Holly upon hearing the news of the closing of Cherished Lady, the local lingerie factory. Hilly, along with many other women in Florabama, has been relying on the factory for her livelihood for years. As Hilly always says, "Life is like a dogsled: if you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes."".
"The same day the plant closes, Bonnie Duke Cullman begins her drive through a Gulf Coast storm to the first real job of her life. Her children are in college and her country club and charity committee existence has come to an end as abruptly as her marriage. In short, like the women of Cherished Lady, she's been downsized.
But luckily for Bonnie, she does have a job to go to: she's been hired to run the Displaced Homemakers Program for a podunk community college where the ex-bra seamstresses of Cherished Lady await her wisdom."--BOOK JACKET.
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The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle
2010, Penguin USA, Inc.
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1101173513 9781101173510
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The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle
2001, Thorndike Press
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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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