Between, Georgia
by Joshilyn Jackson
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Author: Joshilyn JacksonEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-07-03
ISBN: 0446524425
Number of pages: 304
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
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Book Review: A Deeply Emotional Novel with Realistic Characters
Summary: 5 Stars
Between, Georgia, is a small town where nurse Bernese Frett lives with her twin sisters, Genny and Stacia, the latter of whom is deaf and quickly losing her eyesight. Nervous Genny translates for levelheaded Stacia while aggressive Bernese presides over the household and comes to own the town's sheriff and only attorney.
Hazel Crabtree, the rebellious daughter of scrappy neighbor Ona Crabtree, arrives on Bernese's doorstep in advanced labor. Once the newborn arrives, Hazel adamantly refuses to claim her. Although the father is unknown, Stacia lifts the baby to her heart and makes her intentions clear.
Stacia Frett will be the little one's mother, and Genny and Bernese will be there to help. Bernese arranges a shady but quick adoption and a baby that would have been a Crabtree becomes Nonny Jane Frett and finds a loving, albeit imperfect, home.
Later, in a hurtful letter to her mother, absent Hazel Crabtree details Nonny's birth and sends Ona Crabtree into an angry spin that ends with her having to watch her granddaughter grow up from an uncomfortable distance. Hard-living drunkard Ona Crabtree despises Bernese. Pious Bernese Frett returns the favor.
Nonny's finds herself standing between two families leveling weapons at one another. In the crossfire, she must make some hard decisions about how she will live the life she has been given.
Readers will love this story. This is a deeply emotional novel with well-drawn characters that seemingly live real lives.
The story progresses with the same anxiety found in the front car of a roller coaster ride. The reader receives an expertly patched quilt that shows how one life touches so many others.
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