num_pages: 259
description: A brilliant debut novel from a New York Times bestselling author about a transplanted wife from Boston who arrives in Florida in the 1960s starts a literary salon and shakes up the status quo.In 1962 Jackie Hart moved to Naples Florida from Boston with her husband and children. Wanting something personally fulfilling to do with her time she starts a reading club and anonymously hosts a radio show calling herself Miss Dreamsville. The racially segregated town falls in love with Miss Dreamsville but doesnt know what to make of Jackie who welcomes everyone into her book club including a woman who did prison time for allegedly killing her husband a man of questionable sexual preference a young divorcee as well as a black woman. By the end of this novel youll be wiping away the tears of laugher and sadness and you just may become a bit more hopeful that even the most hateful people can see the light of humanitarianism if they just give themselves a chance.
language: English
title: Miss Dreamsville and the Collier County Women's Literary Society
publisher: Atria Books