Show Plot Steel Magnolias

Authors: Robert Harling

Time Period: 1980s

Setting: Chinquapin, Louisiana, Truvy’s local beauty shop (a converted carport)

Summary:

Steel Magnolias is set in a small-town Louisiana beauty parlor during the 1980s. The plot follows the lives, bonds, and tragedies of six Southern women as they support each other through marriage, diabetes, motherhood, and grief.