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A liberty bond tour full of eager young women. A sunny town with a seedy underbelly. When the Florida Girls start shooting back, will anyone survive?
St. Petersburg, Florida, 1944. Thelma Miles can’t abide injustice. Broke and orphaned near the close of WWII, the 18-year-old joins a troupe of touring swimsuit models, only to find she's stepped into the mafia's lair.
Kathleen Young has a one-track mind, often missing the obvious. Determined to get her emporium out of debt and take her sick husband to California’s healing climate, organizing the tour is her first step in a series of increasingly drastic measures.
With the chaotic world of late WWII America as a backdrop, Kirchner’s twisty story weaves together real-life characters and in-depth research to reveal the interior lives of women who were told to step aside when the men returned. If you like rich narratives, coming-of-age adventures, and incredible period details, then you’ll love Kirchner’s gritty tale.
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Never give up, especially not on yourself.
An unexpected divorce forces LL Kirchner to confront the fact that her painful childhood family dynamics remain unresolved. Fearing a return to her addictions, she embarks on a spiritual journey to regain her trust in the universe. But she keeps looking for the answer in relationships, until finally she realizes the gift her mother had always given her—hope.
Blissful Thinking is the sweeping story of L.L. Kirchner’s search for nirvana that took her from university halls in the Persian Gulf to the streets of Manhattan to a sex cult in India. In a memoir that’s both rapturous and page-turning, Kirchner captures the terrors and joys of searching for radical honesty — and a second date.
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After taking a job in Qatar to boost to her husband’s journalism career, L.L. Kirchner lost her health and then her dog as she faced one calamity after the next, all while struggling to lead a marketing team in one of the world’s most patriarchal cultures. Then her husband ended their marriage over the phone, from another country.
As she wrote, “I hoped moving to Qatar would change everything. Until it did.”
She says she wanted the book to be funny yet not to shy away from the truth of her experiences in Doha in the mid-aughts, so it was no small thrill when NPR said her memoir was “like Eat, Pray, Love, but funny.”