The Florabama Ladies' Auxiliary & Sewing Circle

About this book

A New York Times bestseller A Literary Guild and Doubleday Book Club Selection Welcome to Florabama Alabamaa place where you can stop to sip a cocola or iced tea and think about money and love. If you hadem you were free to think about other things. If you didnt you couldnt think about anything else. "Weve been screwed blue and tattooed " quips Hilly Pruitt upon hearing the news of the closing of Cherished Lady the local lingerie factory where shes worked a lifetime. The same day the plant closes Bonnie Duke Cullman former-deb turned Atlanta-society-wife has herself been downsizedright 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.