The Sweetest Thing

By Elizabeth Musser

Two young women from different worlds face tragedy and change during the Great Depression.

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400 pages

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In the midst of the Great Depression, Perri's privileged life in Atlanta is upended by unexpected tragedies. Enter Mary 'Dobbs' Dillard, a preacher's daughter from Chicago, whose radical ideas challenge Perri's world. As their lives collide at a critical moment, an unlikely friendship forms. Can these two opposites navigate the upheaval and find a way to survive the changing times?

From the publisher

The Singleton family’s fortunes seem unaffected by the Great Depression, and Perri–along with the other girls at Atlanta’s elite Washington Seminary–lives a carefree life of tea dances with college boys, matinees at the cinema, and debut parties. But when tragedies strike, Perri is confronted with a world far different from the one she has always known.At the insistence of her parents, Mary “Dobbs” Dillard, the daughter of an itinerant preacher, is sent from inner-city Chicago to live with her aunt and attend Washington Seminary, bringing confrontation and radical ideas. Her arrival intersects at the point of Perri’s ultimate crisis, and the tragedy forges an unlikely friendship. The Sweetest Thing tells the story of two remarkable young women–opposites in every way–fighting for the same goal: surviving tumultuous change.

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