“From Friday night dinners at Denny’s to matchmaking with obituaries, Lunch Ladies will keep readers entertained from cover to cover. Rich with witty dialogue and the ups and downs that come with friends and family, this is a wonderful book that many will enjoy. Kudos to author Jodi Thompson Carr for creating a masterpiece full of emotion, love, warmth, and life.” — Seattle Book Review

“…Crystal, Coralene, and Sheila are all wonderfully complex characters with fully fleshed out voices that make switching between their perspectives easy to follow. It’s even easier to root for them…The book gives middle-aged women a place to be themselves, odd or sad or tragic as they may be. It’s a somber book…but it’s a welcome, soft kind of somber. Not accusatory or devastating, but a gentle undercurrent…Lunch Ladies radiates warmth." -  Independent Book Review

“A sweet story that centers around a group of lunch ladies, their friends, and their families, this is a book that readers will find dear to their hearts. Lunch Ladies will make you laugh, cry, and cheer with its quirky characters. This is a beautifully written novel about relationships, friendships, togetherness, and loneliness.” - Chicago Book Review

“Lunch Ladies by Jodi Thompson Carr is a finely crafted and thoughtful look at the problems that bind us within our seemingly mundane, everyday lives. Carr’s writing is sympathetic in its portrayals, intelligently pulling together these individuals authentically and organically…Overall, this is a wonderful, emotionally resonant tale with a relatable, well-observed narrative that rewards readers with its quiet strength and wisdom. Very highly recommended.” - Readers’ Favorite

“…a heartwarming story that captures relationships, growth, and tragedy in an enlightening atmosphere readers will find engrossing. Especially notable are the disparate paths each woman chooses in her life, and how these are influenced by the attitudes of and encounters with others...Added value comes in the form of wry humor injected throughout the story.” -  Midwest Book Review

“This plunge into the friendships and inner thoughts of a caste of women who usually remain 'unseen' and 'unheard'…is heartfelt, and wrought with sensitivity, tragedy, and humor…the insights that lucky readers gain into the intimate details of overlooked working-class women's souls are as dynamic, dramatic, and important as any characters peopling the middle- and upper-class fictional fare on the market today. - Carol Dawson, author of The Mother-in-Law Diaries, Body of Knowledge, The Waking Spell, and Meeting the Minotaur