Joshilyn Jackson knows what it means to be a Southern writer. She is like Faulkner...only not boring and unreadable.
Grown Up Kind of Pretty is about three generations of women. Stay with me. I know, if you have suffered through a lot of crappy fiction, that the phrase 'three generations of women' is enough to send you running for the hills. Trust me. This is a good one. No pretentious nonsense. No false melodrama.
Jenny is the the matriarch. A single mom at age fifteen, she emancipates herself from her goofy Baptist parents and raises her child alone. That child, Liza, also becomes a mom at age fifteen. This book begins when Liza's daughter, Mosey turns fifteen. Naturally, everyone expects the worst.
This book is just good. Smart, funny and real. Just like I like 'em.
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