The Fashion Orphans by Randy Susan Meyers

Two estranged sisters find that forgiveness never goes out of style when they inherit their mother?s vintage jackets, purses? and pearls of wisdomEstranged half-sisters Gabrielle Winslow and Lulu Quattro have only two things in common: mounds of debt and coils of unresolved enmity toward Bette Bradford, their controlling and imperious recently deceased mother.Gabrielle, the firstborn, was raised in relative luxury on Manhattan?s rarefied Upper East Side. Now, at fifty-five, her life as a Broadway costume designer married to a heralded Broadway producer has exploded in divorce.Lulu, who spent half her childhood under the tutelage of her working-class Brooklyn grandparents, is a grieving widow at forty-eight. With her two sons grown, her life feels reduced to her work at the Ditmas Park bakery owned by her late husband?s family.The two sisters arrive for the reading of their mother?s will, expecting to divide a sizable inheritance, pay off their debts, and then again turn their backs