Kirkus reviews says the book is “a revelatory novel that offers an evocative account of the lives of Appalachian working women,” and Booklist says “it’s a tender, graceful novel that addresses questions of class and social isolation.” It’s also inspired an original song by Dove-winning singer Belinda Smith. Emmalee’s situation looks brighter… until tragedy strikes…
Leona invites Emmalee to come live with her… Leona doesn’t have much, only a small mobile home with her husband, but she’s willing to share. Emmalee finds unlikely friendship in Leona, an aloof, older seamstress. Emmalee, young and unmarried, works to support both herself and her newborn baby girl. Some of the women work simply to have something to do others are the main breadwinners for their families. When Emmalee drops out of high school and gets a job in a shirt factory, she becomes part of a special community of wage-earning women who gossip, laugh and sometimes fight during their shifts sewing collars and shirts. The Funeral Dress is a realistic, sometimes heartbreaking work of Southern literature-a story set primarily in the 1970s that centers on a young woman, Emmalee Bullard, who is trying to escape harsh poverty and her abusive, alcoholic father. The Funeral Dressis inspired by real seamstresses who worked at a Dunlap shirt factory in the 1970s. Random House recently published a new novel from Southern author (and Chattanooga resident) Susan Gregg Gilmore. She won acclaim for her first two novels, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen and The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove.
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