Backseat Saints
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780446582346 (0446582344)
Publish date: June 8th 2010
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Pages no: 352
Edition language: English
Category:
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
Realistic Fiction,
American,
Adult,
Drama,
Contemporary,
Sociology,
Southern,
Womens Fiction,
Chick Lit,
Abuse
I had a mixed reaction to this one, but I’m not sure entirely why, and I’m not sure I can tease it out in the time and space I have here.
http://www.bostonbibliophile.com/2011/04/review-backseat-saints-by-joshilyn.html
I love a good southern story and Joshilyn Jackson does them so well. I really enjoyed this book.
I bought this book because the opening line hooked me: “It was an airport gypsy who told me that I had to kill my husband. She may have been the firt to say the words out loud, but she was only giving voice to a thing that I’d been trying not to know for a long, long timel.”The first paragraph displ...
Does anyone ever know who we truly are? Do we even know? It is into this theme the reader descends as s/he is immersed in Joshilyn Jackson’s Backseat Saints. As Rose Mae/Ro flees her marriage and attempts to set out on her own, she must ultimately uncover who she is and why she keeps hiding before s...
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