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Please join us for a lively discussion of this month's book. Newcomers are always welcome.

Our title for discussion is: The All-Girl Filling Station’s Last Reunion by Fannie Flagg

Summary:

"Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, this 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.

Five women worked in a Phillips 66 gas station during the WWII years. Now Sookie Poole of Point Clear, Alabama, and her mother, the formidable Lenore Simmons Krackenberry, may be forced to reimagine who they are. When Sookie discovers a secret about her mother's past, it calls into question everything she ever thought she knew about herself, her family, and her future. Her search for answers takes her back in time, to the 1940s, when an irrepressible woman named Fritzi takes on the job of running her family's filling station."

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