Book: The Persian Pickle Club

 Book: The Persian Pickle Club

Author: Sandra Dallas

Pages: 224

This is my 170th read for the year

Here is what Amazon says:

It is the 1930s and hard times have hit Harveyville, Kansas, where the crops are burning up, and there's not a job to be found.  For Queenie Bean, a young farm wife, a highlight of each week is the gathering of the Persian Pickel Club, a group of local ladies dedicated to improving their minds, exchanging gossip, and putting their quilting skills to good use.  When a new member of the club stires up a dark secret, the women must band together to support and protect one another. 

This was a good read.  I wanted to like it a little better.  I liked the idea of it: A women's quilting group and gathered together and supported each other as they sewed.  It read more like something out of the 1800s rather than the 1930s - I had a hard time wrapping my head around that there were cars and electricity, etc. because the way the story plays out, it feels like it should have been written in a much earlier time period.  The middle was a trudge.  Even for a short book, I felt that she could have gone a different way and spent more time on the ladies and the quilt group rather than what happened to Queenie and one other member.  Had a hard time really caring about a lot of the characters.  The ending was a little surprising.  

Also - FYI - Persian Pickles is what this group called the Paisely pattern on a quilt.

Stars: 3