by Susan Gregg Gilmore
The Funeral Dress is a story of growing up poor in the South and a story of strong women. The book brings the time period and the place to life. Strong female characters in a book are always promising. I just waited for something unexpected that would make the book stand out, but that did not come. ...
A child herself, unwed, a baby, no mother, not attending school, working at a sewing factory, an abusive father, and no place to go. How much more could Emmalee take? Emmalee Bullard quit school because her father told her he was tired of taking care of her, and she needed to get a job. She fortun...
After hearing Susan Gregg Gilmore as a guest on the Southern fiction episode of the Books on the Nightstand podcast, I realized that my love for the genre had been limited to the Gothic side. I had assumed novels like this would be too sweet for my taste, but thankfully I was won over by Gilmore’s d...
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