Research Catalog

Title

The all-girl filling station's last reunion : a novel / Fannie Flagg.

Author

Flagg, Fannie.

Publication

New York : Random House, [2013]

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Details

Description

347 pages; 25 cm

Summary

Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, this novel is a fun-loving mystery about an Alabama woman today, and five women who in 1943 worked in a Phillips 66 gas station, during the WWII years. Mrs. Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, has just married off the last of her three daughters and is looking forward to relaxing and perhaps traveling with her husband, Earle. The only thing left to contend with now is her mother, the formidable and imposing Lenore Simmons Krackenberry, never an easy task. Lenore may be a lot of fun for other people, but is, for the most part, an overbearing presence for her daughter. Then one day, quite by accident, Sookie discovers a shocking secret about her mother's past that knocks her for a loop and suddenly calls into question everything she ever thought she knew about herself, her family, and her future. This is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in both present day America and during World War II, filled with the author's trademark funny voice and storytelling magic. -- Provided by publisher.

Subject

• Women > Fiction
• Female friendship > Fiction
• Family secrets > Fiction
• Service stations > Fiction
• FICTION / Contemporary Women
• FICTION / Humorous
• FICTION / Historical

Genre/Form

• Historical fiction.
• Domestic fiction.
• Humorous stories.
• Historical fiction
• Detective and mystery stories.
• Detective and mystery fiction
• Domestic fiction
• Fiction
• Humorous fiction

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

ISBN

• 9781400065943 (hardback)
• 1400065941 (hardback)
• 9780812994636 (ebook) (canceled/invalid)

LCCN

^^2013030030

OCLC

856861144

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library