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Sunday, December 22, 2024

Lunch Ladies by Jodi Thompson Carr

 


Set in small town America in the 1970s we read about three ladies and their families, and a parade celebrating America. The preparations that go into it, the wholehearted participation and the work involved and then the personal troubles that our part of the ladies lives.

Crystal, Coralene and Sheila do not think it is their duty to handle food stalls in the parade, but when asked to participate they do so very willingly. Each of them have quirks. Crystal scans the obituaries and tries to match the dead with a living person (sounds eccentric in the extreme but its very matter of fact in the book).  Coralene has a family and a nephew she has promised to look after, guide and protect and she takes those duties seriously, and Sheila lives in the past with no friends except one. She doesn’t like interaction and anyone getting even marginally close.

The characters were very real, heart warming and practical.

Thanks to Century House Press for sending me the book for a review, courtesy of Netgalley.




I am at this beautiful hotel in the mountainous part of Sri Lanka, cool and quiet. My entire family is here after twelve years all of them in one place. It is something to be enjoyed having them all.


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