This week, we feature an oft-quoted classic from ancient China and a spirited novel about strong Texas women and the ties that bind them.
Fiction
‘A Family of Good Women’
By Teddy JonesAfter her mother’s death, Imogene Good left Burkburnett, Texas, to open a boarding house in Borger, a Panhandle Texas oilfield boomtown. She needed a fresh start. Serving meals to local working men in the 1920s isn’t teaching, but teaching jobs are scarce. Borger is dangerous, with plenty of organized crime. It’s hard for a single woman to navigate the town alone. In this warm-hearted novel, Imogene soon gains family, friends, and allies to help her, while she uncovers family secrets in her grandmother’s journals.
