Ella In Bloom

Plot

As women have expanded their roles in society, they have grown as readers, giving rise to a body of contemporary women's fiction that is "more" than the traditional romance. This is fiction about women and their roles in all the parts of their lives.Ella has always lived in the shadow of her "perfect" older sister. A gutsy single parent eeking out a living for herself and her intrepid teenage daughter, Ella invents a genteel life, writing to her mother in drought-baked Texas about her heirloom roses, her linen dresses, and other amenities of a respectable life in Old Metairie, Louisiana. But when Ella's beautiful sister, Terrell, is suddenly killed in a plane crash, Ella must confront the reality of her life and comes, finally and fully, into bloom.