The Duchesne Branch is being remodeled from May 6 - November 30, 2024. Its items will be unavailable from April 1 until the branch reopens. Thank you for your patience during this closure.
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.