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The flower sisters  Cover Image Book Book

The flower sisters / Michelle Collins Anderson.

Summary:

"Daisy Flowers is fifteen in 1978 when her free-spirited mother dumps her in Possum Flats, Missouri. It's a town that sounds like roadkill and, in Daisy's eyes, is every bit as dead. Sentenced to spend the summer living with her grandmother, the wry and irreverent town mortician, Daisy draws the line at working for the family business, Flowers Funeral Home. Instead, she maneuvers her way into an internship at the local newspaper where, sorting through the basement archives, she learns of a mysterious tragedy from fifty years earlier... On a sweltering, terrible night in 1928, an explosion at the local dance hall left dozens of young people dead, shocking and scarring a town that still doesn't know how or why it happened. Listed among the victims is a name that's surprisingly familiar to Daisy, revealing an irresistible family connection to this long-ago accident. Obsessed with investigating the horrors and heroes of that night, Daisy soon discovers Possum Flats holds a multitude of secrets for a small town. And hardly anyone who remembers the tragedy is happy to have some teenaged hippie asking questions about it--not the fire-and-brimstone preacher who found his calling that tragic night; not the fed-up police chief; not the mayor's widow or his mistress; not even Daisy's own grandmother, a woman who's never been afraid to raise eyebrows in the past, whether it's for something she's worn, sworn, or done for a living. Some secrets are guarded by the living, while others are kept by the dead, but as buried truths gradually come into the light, they'll force a reckoning at last." -- From publisher's website.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781496748287
  • ISBN: 149674828X
  • Physical Description: 360 pages ; 21 cm
  • Edition: First Kensington trade paperback edition.
  • Publisher: New York : John Scognamiglio Books, Kensington Publishing Corp., 2024.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Includes a reading group guide.
Subject: Twin sisters > Fiction.
Fires > Fiction.
Family secrets > Fiction.
Teenage girls > Fiction.
Grandmothers > Fiction.
Grandparent and child > Fiction.
Explosions > Fiction.
Secrecy > Fiction.
Small cities > Missouri > Fiction.
Nineteen seventies > Fiction.
Missouri > Fiction.
Genre: Historical fiction.

Available copies

  • 12 of 42 copies available at Missouri Evergreen. (Show)
  • 0 of 5 copies available at Scenic Regional.

Holds

  • 17 current holds with 42 total copies.
Show Only Available Copies
Location Call Number / Copy Notes Barcode Shelving Location Status Due Date
Scenic Regional-Hermann FIC AND (Text) 3008100449 New Fiction Checked out 11/17/2024
Scenic Regional-Owensville FIC AND (Text) 3008100317 New Fiction Checked out 11/27/2024
Scenic Regional-Pacific FIC AND (Text) 3008119352 New Fiction Checked out 11/20/2024
Scenic Regional-Union FIC AND (Text) 3008100325 New Fiction Checked out 11/21/2024
Scenic Regional-Warrenton FIC AND (Text) 3008100333 New Fiction Checked out 11/09/2024


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