The Persian Pickle Club: 20th Anniversary Edition [Paperback]

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.

SANDRA DALLAS is the author of thirteen novels, includingFallen Women, True Sisters,The Bride's House,Whiter Than Snow,Prayers for Sale,TallgrassandNew Mercies. She is a former Denver bureau chief forBusiness Weekmagazine and lives in Denver, Colorado.