Now, MB is sewing-and-all-things-vintage obsessed, so it came as no surprise that the grandmother of our heroine (Dora) owns a vintage clothing boutique. And I was enchanted because it is set in western North Carolina. Early in the story, an exchange between Dora and a coworker puts my home state into perfect perspective:
"Is it pretty? The whole time I was thinking about North Carolina, everyone said, 'Oh, it's so pretty,' like they didn't have anything else to say about it. It was the state version of 'She has a nice personality.' "
"It is pretty; they weren't lying."
As one reviewer put it:
College junior Dora drops everything, including her iPod, to rush home after hearing that the grandmother who raised her, her beloved Mimi, has had a stroke. Once there, she runs Mimi’s, a vintage clothing store, to honor her love for the hospitalized owner. Romance abounds in this fun novel set in western North Carolina. The story gets its suspense from Dora’s crushes, the dippy Gary she left back at college and the newly met Con. Whom will she choose? And, of course, there are the greedy relatives who try to take over the store. But she has wonderful friends to support her as well as a considerable amount of pluckiness of her own.
