The tobacco wives: a novel

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In 1946 North Carolina, seamstress Maddie Sykes, a dressmaker for Bright Leaf's most influential women--the wives of powerful tobacco executives, uncovers dangerous truths about this lucrative industry in a place where everyone depends on Big Tobacco to survive.

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American drama
Bildungsromans
Coming of age
Coming of age -- Fiction
Drama
Electronic books
Fiction
Health aspects
Historical fiction
History
History -- Fiction
Literature
Literature -- Fiction
North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction
North Carolina -- History -- Fiction
Novels
Romance fiction
Tobacco industry
Tobacco industry -- Fiction
Tobacco use
Tobacco use -- Health aspects -- Fiction
United States
United States -- History -- 1945-1953 -- Fiction
United States -- History -- Fiction
Women
Women -- Fiction
Women dressmakers
Women dressmakers -- Fiction
World War, 1939-1945
World War, 1939-1945 -- Fiction

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