I Wish I Had a Red Dress
Author: Pearl Cleage
Since Joyce Mitchell was widowed five years ago, she’s kept herself occupied by running the Sewing Circus, an all-girl group she founded to provide badly needed services to young women at risk, many of whom are single mothers. But some nights, home alone, she has to admit that something is missing. And soon she may not even have the Sewing Circus to fill up her life, as th….Read More
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