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Book Description:
It is the 1930s, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there's not a job to be found. For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickle Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip, and putting their quilting skills to good use. When a new member of the club stirs up a dark secret, the women must band together to support and protect one another. In her magical, memorable novel, Sandra Dallas explores the ties that unite women through good times and bad.
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5 member(s) found this review helpful.
This book is a delightful historical fiction story! Charming,warm( with a slight mystery- women, their bonds, their strength, love ,kindness,intelligence... the steel magnolias of the dust bowl!
Ivy
3 member(s) found this review helpful.
This one has it all...laughter, mystery, tears.
I found it confusing to start but got into it after the first chapter. Great characterization.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Sandra Dallas tells a good story and this book is no exception. Don't worry about getting all the characters straight in the beginning. The whole story comes together and tells of strength and friendship in a quilting club in Harveyville, Kansas during the dry years in the '30s.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
LOVED this book. I read it in one sitting!
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Excellent story of women in the 1930's who come together once a week to quilt and share their lives in very hard times.
2 member(s) found this review helpful.
Enjoyable book, good story of a group of women in a quilting group in the 1930's with a murder mystery twist.
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1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Set in the dust bowl during the Depression, this is an interesting story about a group of women who have a quilting group. (Persian Pickle is a colloquialism for paisley.) The thing that held me back from giving it 4 stars: I found the unusual and odd names a little difficult to assign to characters, because of their oddity, but also because there are extended families, several of whom only factor into the story for a sentence or two, which makes them difficult to distinguish from one another.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
Great heart-warming book that gives the history into the lives of women in 1930 Kansas. I thought it was just great.
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1 member(s) found this review helpful.
One of my favorite books. Sandra Dallas's characters are so real, it's like they live next door.
The reason I have a copy to give is that I loaned this copy to someone and when it didn't come back, I bought another copy.
1 member(s) found this review helpful.
I read this book for a book club and thought it was outstanding, as did the other 5 women! I found myself enveloped in their lives and really enjoyed the book.
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This was an easy read. I liked the ending was a surprise. Enjoyable!
I enjoyed this book. Takes place during the depression so deals with people learning to make do. Strong women. Surprise ending.
This is the second Sandra Dallas book I've read. She has a special knack for developing characters that seem like your own friends. Really liked it.
Hard times in Kansas, l930's. The Persian Pickle Club eet to quilt and then a new member stirs up a dark secret. A cozy book.
It is the 1930's, and hard times have hit Harveyville, Ks, where the crops are burning uap and there's not a job to be found.
For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a higlight of each week is the gathering of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, echanging gossip and putting their quilting skill to good use. When a member of the club stirs up a dark secret, the women must bond together to support and protect one another.
It is the 1930s and hard times have hit Harveyville,Kansas,where the crops are burning up,and there's not a job to be found.
A colorful exploration of depression-era Kansas and the meaning of friendship - The New York Times Book Review
Great book about friendship in the Depression era, Focus is on the young members of a quilting club. Some mystery involved. Has a lot of secondary characters which can be hard to keep straight.
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