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Backseat Saints
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Backseat Saints
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Journal Entry 1 by 
Unabridged, 11 CDs, approximately 13 hours, read by the author **NOTE: Tracks 6-13 on disc #11 include an excerpt from gods in Alabama. These two books are related and have a couple of overlapping characters, but I don't think it's necessary to read one before the other.*** Synopsis: How far would you run to find redemption? Ro Grandee is the perfect Texas housewife. She's determined to be nothing like her long-missing mother—the one who left her with only a heap of old novels and her father's fists for company—so Ro keeps quiet and takes her husband's punches like a lady. But Ro wasn't always this way. Underneath her pastel skirts and hidden bruises lies Rose Mae Lolley, teenage spitfire, Alabama heartbreaker, and a crack shot with a pistol. Rose Mae is resurrected when a gypsy's tarot cards foretell doom for dutiful Ro: Her handsome husband is going to kill her. Unless she kills him first. Armed with only her wit, her pawpy's ancient .45, and her dog Fat Gretel, Rose Mae hightails it out of Texas. In a journey that is by turns harrowing and exhilaratig, she uncovers long-buried truths about her family and herself, running from the man who will never let her go, on a mission to find the mother who did. Taking a minor character from her bestselling gods in Alabama, Jackson has crafted a "riveting read that simply flies off the page with prose as luscious as sweet tea and as spicy as Texas chili " (Library Journal). Backseat Saints will dazzle listeners with a fresh and heart-wrenching portrayal of the lenghts a mother will go to right the wrongs she's created, and how far a daughter will run to escape the demands of forgiveness. Joshilyn Jackson, a native of the Deep South, has worked as an actor and an award-winning teacher and is now a full-time writer and an acclaimed narrator of her own work. She is the New York Times bestselling author of gods in Alabama; Between, Georgia; and The Girl Who Stopped Swimming. Jackson lives with her husband and their two children outside of Atlanta. You can visit her at JoshilynJackson.com. |
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