All the Single Ladies by Dorothea Benton Frank | Summary & Analysis

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• Language: English
• Publisher: IRB Media
• Release date: Jun 29, 2015
• ISBN: 9781943427338

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SUMMARY

All the Single Ladies is a novel by Dorothea Benton Frank that centers on three women brought together by the death of a friend, Kathryn Harper.

Lisa St. Clair is in dire straits. She lost all of her money in a failed yoga studio business and has been reduced to living in a home vacated by her parents’ elderly friends. She is also estranged from her grown daughter, Marianne, who has chosen to live in Colorado to be near her father, Lisa’s ex-husband, and to build a marijuana business. Lisa strongly disapproves of Marianne’s choices and the situation has placed a firm wedge between mother and daughter.

Lisa works at a senior care home as a part time nurse. There, she befriends Carrie and Suzanne as she treats their dying friend, Kathryn. When Kathryn passes away of cancer,  Suzanne is named executor of her estate. No one knows if Kathryn has any family. In fact, they know little about Kathryn’s past.

Lisa works with Suzanne and Carrie to clean out Kathryn’s apartment. As they work, they become suspicious that the landlady, Wendy, stole some jewelry and other items from Kathryn’s apartment. They have no proof, or even know for sure what is missing, but when they receive a bill for landscaping, it only inflames their suspicions. Wendy insists that Kathryn wanted to pay for the landscaping as a gift, but the women