The Future Homemakers of America

"A . . . funny and wry portrait of six women friends from WWII to the 1990s. . . . By the end, readers will. . . . be shedding tears of sheer recognition." —Publishers Weekly

Stationed at a U.S. Air Force base in Norfolk, England in 1952, a group of "Yankee wives" are thrown together by nothing more than husbands who patrol the skies keeping the Soviets at bay. They seem to have little in common; some, like Pie Crust Queen Betty Gillis, are content to clip coupons and bake chocolate brownies...