From the Same Cloth is a first person narrative book about Orva Roberts and Cassiopeia Jackson, two senior women, one black and one white. Orva, a feisty white woman is the narrator in her late sixties, while Cassiopeia Jackson is a black woman of approximately the same age and the mother of ten children whom Orva thinks is the wisest woman she's ever known, and they are best friends.

This novel is about their friendship, their ups and downs of white folk attitude toward black people, and especially a friendship between the two. It is also about Orva's humorous observations of life, and her romance with an old man down the street.

Book Two is much shorter and creates a romantic triangle that has Orva somewhat confused, yet makes her much wiser, with input from Cassiopeia.