Joann C. Odenwelder
THIRTEEN BUTTONHOLES is World War II Historical Fiction
Joann is currently writing
Agatha's Time
Agatha Booker married young and to the wrong man. John's untimely death in a motorcycle accident leaves Agatha alone, vulnerable, afraid, and with three children.
Stan, stable and willing to take on a ready-made family, steps in to fill the void. But, for the second time in her life, Agatha has married the wrong man.
THIRTEEN BUTTONHOLES
THIRTEEN BUTTONHOLES is a coming of age story about seventeen year old Annie Capelli. She is in love with Kenneth, a young man her parents don't approve of because:
He is not Catholic.
He is not Italian,
He has a farmer's deferment, meaning he won't ever fight in the War, something important to her father who is a veteran of the Great War.
Annie works as a buttonholer in a Pennsylvania Navy Uniform mill. As a buttonholer, Annie operates a buttonhole machine to sew the thirteen buttonholes in the front flap of enlisted men's blue wool trousers.
THIRTEEN BUTTONHOLES is a coming of age story about seventeen year old Annie Capelli. She is in love with Kenneth, a young man her parents don't approve of because:
He is not Catholic.
He is not Italian,
He has a farmer's deferment, meaning he won't ever fight in the War, something important to her father who is a veteran of the Great War.
Annie works as a buttonholer in a Pennsylvania Navy Uniform mill. As a buttonholer, Annie operates a buttonhole machine to sew the thirteen buttonholes in the front flap of enlisted men's blue wool trousers.
Reminders of the War surround Annie, but still she holds onto a vision of her future: marriage, a two-story brick house, a grand picture window adorned with tieback lace curtains, and two kids running around underfoot.
Annie marries Kenneth and has all she ever wanted, but a vacation through Texas in 1952 changes everything.
