The Future Homemakers of America - Hardcover

Laurie Graham

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0786249307 ISBN 13: 9780786249305

Publisher: Thorndike Press, 2003

Synopsis

A Featured Alternate of the Literary Guild, the Doubleday Book Club, and the Book-of-the-Month Club

This warm, funny, often moving novel spans forty years in the friendships of a group of five women who meet as young Air Force wives and mothers stationed in Norfolk, England, in 1952 and set out to make the most of their overseas mission.

About this title

About the Author:

Laurie Graham lives in Venice, Italy

From Publishers Weekly:

This sixth novel by Graham (Dog Days, Glenn Miller Nights; etc.) gets off to a slow start, but once it picks up its pace, it delivers a true, funny and wry portrait of six women friends from WWII to the 1990s, as well as of America's changing social mores and attitudes. Peggy Dewey, wife of Air Force pilot Vern, meets Audrey, Gayle, Lois, Betty and Kath, all Air Force wives, while Vern is on assignment in England during WWII. Though these women would most likely never have been friends under other circumstances, friends they become, and over the years Peggy is their linchpin, keeping in contact with everyone through good times and bad. The lives of the women take turns they never would have imagined as traditional military wives. Audrey's upwardly mobile officer husband dies; Gayle, the nervous young bride with the alcohol problem, becomes a famous faith healer; Betty, the "pie crust queen," has problems with her children; Lois bears a child outside of her marriage, passing it off as her husband's, though the girls suspect the truth; Kath, their English friend, and Peggy, start their own businesses. Through it all, they stay in touch, supporting, counseling and wisecracking all the way. By the end, readers will feel so close to the girls they'll be shedding tears of sheer recognition. Graham has truly captured women's friendships through thick and thin, and Peggy is a gem-matter-of-fact, grounded, funny and fresh. If readers can get past the stodgy beginning, this novel should sell itself by word of mouth.
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About this edition

• Publisher: Thorndike Press
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 0786249307
• ISBN 13: 9780786249305
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 475