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Photo from: http://us.penguingroup.com/nf/Book/BookDisplay/0,,9780142000366,00.htmlThe Florabama Ladies Auxiliary and Sewing Circle
by Lois Battle
At the heart of this book is this question: what happens to you when your entire world has been turned upside down and you're some how supposed to pick up and move on? What do you do?
That's exactly what happens to Bonnie Duke Cullman in this book. When her husband leaves her, and in the process, announces that he's going bankrupt, her neat, little society wife life is rocked to its very core. What is a woman without any out of the home working history going to manage on her own?
At the same time, a lingerie factory in Florabama, Alabama, shuts its operations down and moves to Mexico, leaving its workforce without their "next step."
This story is really about the parallel lives of Bonnie Cullman and a core group of women she's been commissioned to help and how they all pull themselves up by their collective boot straps to make their lives more than what they were before it all came collapsing down around their feet.
It's an easy read that is enjoyable, if not slightly humorous at times. Good for the beach ...
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