New York Times Bestselling Author Joshilyn Jackson will be speaking, reading, and signing copies of Backseat Saints.
This is a ticketed event, register online at THIS LINK.
Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As "Mrs. Ro Grandee" she's trapped in a marriage that's thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true self has been bound in the chains of marital bliss in rural Texas, letting "Ro" make eggs, iron shirts, and take her punches. She seems doomed to spend the rest of her life battered outside by her husband and inside by her former self, until fate throws her in the path of an airport gypsy---one who shares her past and knows her future. The tarot cards foretell that Rose's beautiful, abusive husband is going to kill her. Unless she kills him first.
Hot-blooded Rose Mae escapes from under Ro's perky compliance and emerges with a gun and a plan to beat the hand she's been dealt. Following messages that her long-missing mother has left hidden for her in graffiti and behind paintings, Rose and her dog Gretel set out from Amarillo, TX back to her hometown of Fruiton, AL, and then on to California, unearthing a host of family secrets as she goes. Running for her life, she realizes that she must face her past in order to overcome her fate---death by marriage---and become a girl who is strong enough to save herself from the one who loves her best.
Backseat Saints will dazzle readers with a fresh and heartwrenching portrayal of the lengths a mother will go to right the wrongs she's created, and how far a daughter will go to escape the demands of forgiveness. With the seed of a minor character from her popular best-seller, Gods in Alabama, Jackson has built a whole new story full of her trademark sly wit, endearingly off-kilter characters, and utterly riveting plot twists.
Joshilyn Jackson was born in the Deep South. Ms. Jackson dropped out of college to pursue a career as an actor. She worked in regional repertoire, wrote plays, and traveled the southern third of the country with a dinner theatre troupe. She decided both virtue and an education were worth the work, so she went back to college to study English literature, focusing on Modern and Medieval Theater. She graduated with honors from Georgia State, then moved to Chicago and managed to recover from a near-terminal case of culture shock just in time to earn her MA in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago. Ms. Jackson taught English at UIC. In her first year of teaching, she won the Student's Choice Award for Best English Instructor. After graduate school she ran for warmer climes, returning to her hometown and marrying the boy next door. She currently lives just outside of Atlanta with her husband, their two children, a hound dog, and a twenty-three-pound, one-eyed Maine Coon cat named Franz Schubert.
Her short fiction has been published in literary magazines and anthologies including TriQuarterly and Calyx. Her bestselling debut novel, Gods in Alabama won SIBA's 2005 Novel of the year Award and was a #1 BookSense pick. Between Georgia was also a #1 BookSense pick, making Jackson the first author in BookSense history to receive #1 status in back to back years. Jackson read the audio version herself, winning a Listen Up award from Publisher's Weekly and making Audiofile's Best of 2006 list. Jackson also read the audio version of her third novel, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming and was shortlisted for an Audie Award. Please visit Joshilyn's website at http://joshilynjackson.com.
The luncheon will be held in the Gallery at Black Creek Arts Center, 116 West College Avenue, Hartsville. Tickets are $35 and include a copy of Backseat Saints, lunch catered by Bizzell's Food and Spirits, and the opportunity to hear Joshilyn speak, read and have her personalize your book. Tickets may be purchased at Burry Bookstore.
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