Gregg Gilmore Susan - The Funeral Dress A Novel - Paperback

Binding: Paperback
Description: A deeply touching Southern story filled with struggle and hope. 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. But 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. 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. Now with Extra Libris material including a reader's guide and bonus content
Title: The Funeral Dress A Novel
Author(s): Gregg Gilmore Susan
Publisher: Broadway Books (A Division Of Bantam Doubleday Dell Publishing Group Inc)
Barcode: 9780307886217
Pages: 368 Pages
Publication Date: 9/3/2013
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction