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The early 1920s were desperate times in South Carolina after a multiyear boll weevil infestation destroyed the cotton crops. Then the farmers planted tobacco, but it did not fetch a good price. Hurricanes also ravaged the area.
Three women from different classes and races are trying to hold their lives together in this novel. Gertrude is an impoverished and abused wife trying to keep her four daughters fed and sheltered. Annie is estranged from her daughters, and has recently discovered a devasta ...more
Three women from different classes and races are trying to hold their lives together in this novel. Gertrude is an impoverished and abused wife trying to keep her four daughters fed and sheltered. Annie is estranged from her daughters, and has recently discovered a devasta ...more
5.0/5.0 - Best book that I've read so far this year, and it's a debut novel, to boot. Historical fiction set in 1924 in South Carolina, it's the story of three strong women from different walks of life whose lives intertwine. Annie is the matriarch of the leading family in the town, owner of The Sewing Circle, and mother of 7 children, four who survived childhood and are now adults. She is haunted by the death of her son, Buck, when he committed suicide at the age of twelve. Retta, first generat
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