Between, Georgia
Sep 24, 2006
Author: Joshilyn Jackson
Published: July 2006 by Warner Books
Website: www.joshilynjackson.com
Other books: gods in Alabama
Nonny Frett is the heroine in Joshilyn Jackson's latest novel Between, Georgia and she is richly portrayed as a character that any woman raised in the small town South can solidly identify with. Born into the Crabtree family and taken in by the Fretts, Nonny finds herself torn between loyalty to the trio of sisters that "raised her up right" and the gun totin' redneck family that still claims her as one of their own years afterward. Her vocation as an interpreter for the deaf was a natural choice for the daughter of Stacia Frett, who is deaf and nearly blind.
Nonny has a court date in one week to divorce her bad habit of a musician husband when she is called home to Between after Ona Crabtree's vicious dobermans attack Stacia and her nervous sibling Genny and land them injured in the hospital. Bossy sister Bernese gets into the fray after that and the war between the Fretts and Crabtrees is officially on! During the days that follow, Nonny finds herself not only between families but between love interests . Her inability to make firm decisions is put to the test in more ways than one during this action packed gem of Southern literature. Jackson takes the reader through a whirlwind of emotions with her finely crafted action packed adventure of a Southern gal who finally finds out what she's made of.
