by Fannie Flagg
First published 2013
Sookie Earle has married off her last daughter and plans to relax in her Alabama home. Then a mysterious package arrives that changes everything she thought she knew about herself. The contents send her searching back to the 1940s and the story of four remarkable sisters in Wisconsin. When the men left for war in 1941, Fritzi and her sisters took over their father's gas station. They transformed it into something entirely their own, complete with roller skates, short skirts, and plenty of determination. But their work at the All Girl Filling Station was just the beginning. The war needed skilled women to pilot aircraft, and the sisters answered the call. As Sookie uncovers their adventures, she discovers how these women redefined their own limits during wartime. Their story forces Sookie to reconsider her own identity and capabilities in ways she never expected.
Genres: american-fiction, historical-fiction, 20th-century, 21st-century, family-drama
Vibes: emotional, intimate, thought-provoking
Tropes: found-family, identity
Setting: Alabama, Wisconsin
Period: 1940s, 2010s
369 pages · Kindle Edition · Random House