The Funeral Dress
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"Emmalee Bullard and her new baby are on their own. Or so she thinks, until Leona Lane, the older seamstress who sat by her side at the local shirt factory where both women worked as collar makers, insists Emmalee come and live with her. Just as Emmalee prepares to escape her hardscrabble life in Red Chert holler, Leona dies tragically. Grief-stricken, Emmalee decides she'll make Leona's burying dress, but there are plenty of people who don't think the unmarried Emmalee should design a dress for a Christian woman - or care for a child on her own. But with every stitch, Emmalee struggles to do what is right for her daughter and to honor Leona the best way she can, finding unlikely support among an indomitable group of seamstresses and the town's funeral director. In a moving tale exploring Southern spirit and camaraderie among working women, a young mother will compel a town to become a community" -- from publisher's web site.
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a good story submitted by smgop on June 19, 2016, 7:10pm I enjoyed this book, for the most part, even though much of the story line was challenging from the perspective of prejudice, bigotry & poverty. Kindness & goodness prevails, though.
PUBLISHED
New York : B\D\W\Y Broadway Books, 2013.
Year Published: 2013
Description: 356 pages ; 21 cm.
Language: English
Format: Book
ISBN/STANDARD NUMBER
9780307886217
SUBJECTS
Women -- Southern States -- Fiction.
Single mothers -- Fiction.
Self-actualization (Psychology) in women -- Fiction.