Joshilyn Jackson - A GROWN-UP KIND OF PRETTY | Octavia Books | New Orleans, Louisiana

Start: 02/01/2012 6:00 pm

Please join us for a reading & signing with New York Times bestselling author Joshilyn Jackson featuring her stunning new novel, A GROWN-UP KIND OF PRETTY.

This book 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 lives in Georgia with her husband, their two children, and way too many feckless animals. She is the author of five novel including Gods in Alabama, Between, Georgia, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, Backseat Saints. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages, won the Southern Independent Booksellers Association’s novel of the year, twice been a #1 Book Sense Pick, and been shortlisted for the Townsend prize. A former actor, Jackson reads the audio versions of her novels; her work in this field has been nominated for the Audie Award, was selected by AudioFile Magazine for their best of the year list, and garnered a Listen Up Award from Publisher’s Weekly. She is hard at work on a new novel titled SOMEONE ELSE’S LOVE STORY, expected in 2014.