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  • Between, Georgia

  • I read Joshilyn Jackson's Gods in Alabama last year and enjoyed it, so I was really looking forward to reading this one. I wasn't disappointed. I'd have to say I liked this even better than Gods because this one really reaches out and touches your heart. It's funny and heartfelt and all about fam ... Continue

    I read Joshilyn Jackson's Gods in Alabama last year and enjoyed it, so I was really looking forward to reading this one. I wasn't disappointed. I'd have to say I liked this even better than Gods because this one really reaches out and touches your heart. It's funny and heartfelt and all about families (the love and the feuds) and small town life.

    

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• ― Readingrat said on Feb 14, 2008 | Add your feedback

Nonny Frett understands the meaning of the phrase in between a rock and a hard place better than any woman alive. Shes got two mothers, one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy. Shes got two men: a husband whos easing out the back door; and a best friend, whos laying siege to her heart in her front yard. And she has two families: the Fretts, who stole her and raised her right; and the Crabtrees, who lost her and wont forget how they were done wrong. Now, in Between, Georgia, population 90, a feud that began the night Nonny was born is escalating, and a random act of violence is about to ignite a stash of family secrets. Ironically, it might be just what the town needs....if only Nonny werent stuck in between.

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