Joshilyn Jackson signs A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty
01/30/2012 5:00 pm
A GROWN-UP KIND OF PRETTY is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb-spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood-is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in the backyard, and determined to figure out why it's there. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mother, is haunted by choices she made as a teenager. But it is Jenny, Mosey's strong and big-hearted grandmother, whose maternal love braids together the strands of the women's shared past--and who will stop at nothing to defend their future.
Joshilyn Jackson, a native of the Deep South, has worked as an actor and an award-winning teacher, and is now a writer and a mother of two. She is the author of gods in Alabama; Between, Georgia; The Girl Who Stopped Swimming; and Backseat Saints. Jackson lives with her husband and children outside of Atlanta. Visit her website at www.joshilynjackson.com.
"Snappy dialogue with a Southern twang, spiritual uplift and undeniably likable characters."
-Kirkus Reviews
Location:
- Street:
- 160 Courthouse Sq
- City:
- Oxford ,
- Province:
- Mississippi
- Postal Code:
- 38655-3914
- Country:
- United States