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Jess Riley
Jess has been a waitress, a blue cheese packager, and a grant writer. She worked at a toy store during the Tickle Me Elmo craze and lived to tell about it. She's also worked at a medium-security men's prison, which was much less stressful. She shares a drafty old house in Oshkosh, Wisconsin with... show more

Jess has been a waitress, a blue cheese packager, and a grant writer. She worked at a toy store during the Tickle Me Elmo craze and lived to tell about it. She's also worked at a medium-security men's prison, which was much less stressful. She shares a drafty old house in Oshkosh, Wisconsin with her husband and a neurotic dog that despises public radio.Her debut novel, DRIVING SIDEWAYS, was released by Random House in 2008. Selected as a Target Breakout Book, it's now in its fourth printing. Other novels include ALL THE LONELY PEOPLE and MANDATORY RELEASE. Visit www.jessriley.com or follow her on Facebook, just for fun: facebook.com/jessrileywrites.
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loribonesscaswell
loribonesscaswell rated it 9 years ago
Dollycas’s ThoughtsWhy did I wait so lone to read this book? Leigh Fielding lives with her brother and his wife about 30 minutes from where I am sitting. I loved all the local references. Also my mother was on dialysis for some time before she died so those references rang true as well.Leigh was luc...
loribonesscaswell
loribonesscaswell rated it 9 years ago
Dollycas’s ThoughtsWhy did I wait so lone to read this book? Leigh Fielding lives with her brother and his wife about 30 minutes from where I am sitting. I loved all the local references. Also my mother was on dialysis for some time before she died so those references rang true as well.Leigh was luc...
karmaforlifechick
karmaforlifechick rated it 12 years ago
Graham and Drew were high school friends who met up again after years of disillusionment where love is concerned. This time around they meet up at work – a prison no less, where they are both employed, Graham is still trying to deal with his disability and Drew is reeling from a broken heart. The ...
Kassiah
Kassiah rated it 12 years ago
3 stars.You can see this review, along with a bunch of others, at Fictionators.I liked this one.After a life-wrenching breakup with her boyfriend of eight years, Drew Daniels moves back home and gets a job with her mother at a medium-security prison as a Special Ed teacher. Trying to figure out a w...
jenniferwaggonerhartling
jenniferwaggonerhartling rated it 12 years ago
Originally published on my blog @ http://therelentlessreader.blogspot.com/2013/07/mandatory-release-by-jess-riley.htmlYou may have noticed that I tend to read a lot of dark books. I'm a fan of memoirs wherein the protagonist has a much crappier life than I do. I have a hankering to read about the se...
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