The Magic Room: a Story About the Love We Wish for Our Daughters

✍ Scribed by Jeffrey Zaslow

• Book ID: 100281703
• Publisher: Penguin Publishing Group;Gotham Books
• Year: 2011;2012
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 1 MB
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 1101553634

✦ Synopsis

The New York Times bestselling author of The Girls from Ames shares an intimate look at a small-town bridal shop, its multigenerational female owners, and the love between parents and daughters as they prepare for their wedding day.

Thousands of women have stepped inside Becker's Bridal, in Fowler, Michigan, to try on their dream dresses in the Magic Room, a special space with soft lighting, a circular pedestal, and mirrors that carry a bride's image into infinity. The women bring with them their most precious expectations about romance, love, fidelity, permanence, and tradition. Each bride who passes through has a story to tell--one that carried her there, to that dress, that room, that moment.

Illuminating the poignant aspects of a woman's journey to the altar, The Magic Room tells the stories of memorable women on the brink of commitment. Run by the same family for four generations, Becker's has witnessed transformations in how...