Social worker Joyce Mitchell was widowed far too young and has stayed busy the last 5 years by running the group she founded to provide services like day care and job counseling to young women. She goes to dinner at her best friend's house and meets the new vice principal at the high school. This isn't a romance, although by the end Joyce is in a relationship with the V.P. It's a story of community and how people (women & women, men & women, men & men, mothers & children, you get the picture) interact and relate. The red dress in the title has to do with what's going on in Joyce's life, heart and head. I wish this book hadn't been abridged b/c I wanted to know these people better. A good read. Available from HarperCollins & HarperCollins Audio. Read by the author. NFM
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I have a bookclub member
I have a bookclub member that loves Pearl Cleage. I have this on my TBR shelf. I was going to read it during New to Me month, but life happened and I didn't read much that month. I still have it in the forefront of my mind.
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She has an prior book set in the same town,
but this one stands alone just fine. I wouldn't have known about the other were it not for the back of the "book". Maybe this summer you can read it. There is some violence -- I assume your friend warned you.
Good luck finding some free time,
Penn
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