![]() ![]() While Jackson doesn't entirely avoid clich s, the care that she's taken in developing the relationships between the Slocumb women makes up for it. Jackson's newest (after Backseat Saints) is highly immersive, evoking the suffocation of rural Mississippi and using a teen pregnancy mystery to create a compelling page-turner. A Grown Up Kind of Pretty is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by. Along the way Mosey puts her life in danger and learns a thing or two about family. Their quest, told in alternating points-of-view among all main characters, uncovers an old feud between Liza and best friend Melissa, an illicit affair, the vengeance of the thwarted party, and drug addiction long hidden. This macabre discovery sends Mosey, Ginny, and Big in search of answers about the baby and Mosey's identity. Wanting to put a pool in the yard for Liza's water therapy, Ginny has a willow uprooted, unearthing the bones of a baby Liza's baby. But the curse strikes in a different form, bringing a stroke to Liza that renders her mute and crippled, leaving her husband "Big" to care for her. ![]() Now it's Mosey who's 15, and she's nervous. Ginny gave birth to Liza when she was 15. The Slocumb women suffer from an unfortunate curse: every 15 years something bad happens. ![]()
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