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Between, Georgia

by Joshilyn Jackson



      Nonny Frett wants true love and family peace -no small task considering she was born smack-dab in the middle of the Frett-Crabtree feud. Thirty years before, teenaged Hazel Crabtree birthed and disowned Nonny on the Frett's living room floor. Stacie Frett longed for motherhood, and Nonny's Crabtree roots blossomed in the Frett's Between, Georgia household.

Finding happiness should not be so hard, although Nonny would be hard pressed to find a life more contradictory than hers. Her adoptive mother, Stacie Frett, showers her with love and order. Yet Ona Crabtree, Nonny's birth grandmother, circles and stirs a pot of love and hate for the Fretts. Nonny struggles to balance a love for the wild and drunken Crabtrees with her allegiance to the Fretts.

After she escapes to college in Athens, GA, she marries pose-perfect musician Jonno. The marriage seems perfectly appropriate until Nonny uncovers Jonno's secrets. Her heart takes baby steps to divorce and cutting their lust-drunken ties.

Nonny's purest love is for Fisher, her aunt's granddaughter. Nonny acts like a surrogate mother to Fisher who was also abandoned at birth. The little girl's love grows beyond Nonny's weekend visits, during which Nonny finds herself caught between the girl and her aunt's heavy parenting.

An urgent call sends Nonny racing to her family's side at the hospital. She learns the Crabtree’s vicious dogs had attacked her mother and aunt. The decades long feud erupts. Can Nonny prevent more bloodshed between the feuding sides? Or will she be forced to choose between her birth and adopted families?

Joshilyn Jackson’s Southern-rich novel of Between, Georgia sets the stage for Nonny’s unique situation. Jackson’s characters breathe life, and you will no doubt feel they are real. Readers will devour the little town painted with big secrets and family alliances. I highly recommend Between, Georgia for an adventurous visit with love’s peaks and valleys.

The Book

Warner Books
July 6, 2006
Hardcover
0446524425
Fiction - Literary
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Excerpt
NOTE: Deaf (and blind) Character: Stacie Frett

The Reviewer

Jennifer Akers
Reviewed 2006
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