Between, Georgia
A stolen baby. A lifelong feud. An explosive secret.
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Publisher Description
'Jackson knows how to grab a reader - and not let go' USA Today
A stolen baby. A lifelong feud. An explosive secret.
Nonny Frett understands the meanings of 'rock' and 'hard place'. She's got two men: her husband easing out the back door and her best friend laying siege to her heart in her front yard. She has a job that holds her in the city, yet she's addicted to a little girl stuck deep in the country. And she has two families: the Fretts, who stole her and raised her right, and the Crabtrees, who lost her and can't forget they've been done wrong.
Now a random act of violence is about to set the torch to a thirty-year-old stash of highly flammable secrets. This might be just what the town needs - if only Nonny wasn't sitting in the middle of it . . .
Praise for BETWEEN, GEORGIA:
'A delight from start to finish' - Publishers Weekly
'A climactic ending with perfect resolution . . . even the most cynical reader will surely smile as the back cover closes' - Booklist
'Evocative and lovingly crafted' - Kirkus
'An exemplary novel' - Bookpage
PUBLISHERS WEEKLY
The biological daughter of poor, scared teenager Hazel Crabtree, Nonny Frett was left at birth with the wealthy, respectable Frett clan a secret that doesn't keep long in a rural Georgia town of 90 people. Growing up at the center of a Crabtree-Frett feud begun by her birth, Nonny is caught between her biological family and her adopted one, between contempt for her philandering husband and the comfort of marriage, between an apartment in Athens, Ga., and her childhood home, Between. When a Doberman belonging to Nonny's biological grandmother Ona Crabtree attacks Nonny's adopted mom, deaf and blind Stacia Frett, and Stacia's twin sister, Genny, the families' dormant "war" awakens. Though Jackson (Gods in Alabama) might cut a few corners plotwise, her strengths more than make up for it: plenty of Southern sass ("Don't call me again unless you are personally on fire") and rueful, charming confidences ("I wanted the divorce with all my heart. I did. Only I wasn't sure I wanted it tomorrow") make this a theatrical and well-paced Southern family drama.
