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082	1		_aFIC GIL _2
100	1		_aGilmore, Susan Gregg
245	1	4	_aThe funeral dress : _ba novel _c/ Susan Gregg Gilmore
260			_aNew York _b: B\D\W\Y Broadway Books _c, 2013
300			_a356 p. _c; 21 cm
520			_aEmmalee 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.
546			_aEnglish
650		4	_aSingle mothers _v--Fiction
650		4	_aSelf-actualization (Psychology) in women _v--Fiction
651		4	_aSouthern States _v--Fiction
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