"Spanning decades, generations, and America in the 1940s and today, The All-Girl Filling Station's Last Reunion 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. Like Fannie Flagg's classic Fried Green Tomatoes, this is a riveting, fun story of two families, set in present day America and during World War II, filled to the brim with Flagg's trademark funny voice and storytelling magic"--
Sookie Poole has earned a rest. She just finished her last daughter's wedding. Now she only has to deal with her overbearing mother, Lenore, who gives the impression that Sookie has never measured up to fine Southern family legacy. Then Sookie finds out that Lenore has been keeping a secret from her. Investigating it leads Sookie back to Wisconsin in the 1940s and a family of women who run a gas station and fly planes for the Army.
Fannie Flagg is always entertaining. I found Sookie tedious in her indecisiveness and paralyzing self-effacement but I loved the stories from the 1940s about the women who flew domestically for the Army with no recognition or benefits.
