Between, Georgia
"Between, Georgia is a small miracle, and Nonny Frett is the most
engaging woman who ever lived in the pages of a book. Joshilyn Jackson is an enormously
talented writer."
- Anne Rivers Siddons, New York Times bestselling author
of Sweetwater Creek
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There's always been bad blood between the Fretts and the Crabtrees. After all, the Fretts
practically own the tiny town of Between, Georgia, while the Crabtrees only rent space in its
jail cells.
Stacia Frett is a deaf artist with a genetic condition that is causing her to
slowly go blind. She's lost the love of her life, and when her vision goes, she'll lose her
career as well. She's asking God why He keeps her breathing in and out, until the night fifteen
year old Hazel Crabtree shows up on her doorstep brandishing a stomach swollen with a pregnancy
she'd hidden for nine months. Stacia thinks Hazel's unwanted baby might be God's answer, and so
the Fretts decide to steal it...
Thirty years later, Nonny Frett is a successful interpreter living in Athens,
Georgia. She understands the meanings of "rock" and "hard place" better than any woman ever
born. She's got two mothers, "one deaf-blind and the other four baby steps from flat crazy."
She's got two men; Her husband is easing out the back door and her best friend is laying siege
to her heart in her front yard. She has a job that holds her in the city, and she's addicted to
a little girl who's stuck deep in the country. And she has two families; The Fretts, who stole
her and raised her right, and the Crabtrees, who lost her and can't forget that they've been
done wrong.
In Between, Georgia, population 90, the feud that began before Nonny was born
is escalating, and a random act of violence will set the torch to a thirty-year old stash of
highly flammable secrets. This might be just what the town needs, if only Nonny wasn't sitting
in the middle of it...
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A #1 BookSense pick
"Between, Georgia is a raucous novel, populated by wild characters,
tenderly drawn. Joshilyn Jackson proves to be a wiley guide who writes with wit and warmth about
the complex nature of family, while handing down a beautiful and fierce new definition of
motherhood."
- Julianna Baggott, author of the national bestseller
Girl Talk and, with Steve Almond, Which Brings Me To You
"What a charming, magical book, filled with everyday marvels! Jackson's
inventiveness and attention to detail are dazzling, and her characters so quirky and true.
- Diane Thomas, author of The Year the Music Changed
"Funny, wrenching, and pitch-perfect, Joshilyn Jackson's Between, Georgia
explores the ways people belong to each other and how far they'll go to keep what's theirs.
I'll carry Nonny and her family-the whole tangled, fierce, devoted lot of them-around with me
for a long, long time."
- Marisa de los Santos, author of Love Walked In
