traveling saleswoman

A tired traveling saleswoman poses as an officer’s wife at a bungalow camp for military couples only.

“Smoking meant a lot to her sometimes,” he wrote in “Thanks for the Light,” about a lonely traveling saleswoman.

Bush was a child of privilege in Greenwich, Connecticut, the son of a United States senator; Dole, whose family moved into their basement in order to rent out the house during the Depression, was working class; his father ran a creamery and his mother worked as a traveling saleswoman.

Among the characters are: Doris, who wants her new family to stay healthy and eat well; Farrah, who has moved away from her West Virginia home to a Chicago apartment and has never cooked for herself; Catherine, a traveling saleswoman who is always eating on the run; and Benjamin who is “scared stiff” about his cholesterol levels and weight gain.

She became the nation’s traveling saleswoman, taking trade missions to the Soviet Union, Europe, Africa and Asia.