The Girl Who Stopped Swimming (Unabridged)
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- $14.99
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- $14.99
Publisher Description
Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother make sure the literal family skeleton stays in the closet or turning scraps of fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts.
Her estranged sister, Thalia, an impoverished Actress with a capital A, is her polar opposite, priding herself on exposing the lurid truth lurking behind middle class niceties.
While Laurel's life seems neatly on track - a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, and a lovely home in suburban Victorianna - everything she holds dear is suddenly thrown into question the night she is visited by the ghost of a her 13-year old neighbor, Molly Dufresne. The ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly, floating lifelessly in the Hawthorne's backyard pool. Molly's death is inexplicable - an unseemly mystery Laurel knows no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to solving. Only her wayward, unpredictable sister is right for the task, but calling in a favor from Thalia is like walking straight into a frying pan protected only by Crisco.
Enlisting Thalia's help, Laurel sets out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about her family's guarded past, the true state of her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.
Richer and more rewarding than any story Joshilyn Jackson has yet written, yet still packed with Jackson's trademarked outrageous characters, sparkling dialogue, and defiantly twisting plotting, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming is destined both to delight Jackson's loyal fans and capture a whole new audience.
Customer Reviews
Jackson has stolen my heart...
As a Southerner living above the Mason-Dixon I am always looking for ways to go home in my mind. Jackson not only takes me there but she gives my SOUL comfort. She is as Southern and tru as Cornbread and Collards, but never stoops to a level of hokiness. She takes me to a time 25 years ago before the South was invaded again by the Yanks, and the world was a better place. I have bought all of her books, but after listening to The Girl Who Stopped Swimming I bought all of the audiobooks, as well. Jackson brings her characters life with her voice, and I feel like in finding her work, I have a piece of home with me, as well as a "new" old friend!