After an airport gypsy predicts that Rose's violent husband is going to kill her, Rose grabs a gun and her dog Gretel and sets out on a cross-country escape, following messages that her missing mother has left for her and unraveling family secrets along the way. (General fiction). By the author of The Girl Who Stopped Swimming.
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Joshilyn Jackson, a native of the Deep South, has worked as an actor and an award-winning teacher, and is now a writer and a mother of two. She is the author of gods in Alabama; Between, Georgia; and The Girl Who Stopped Swimming. Jackson lives with her husband and children outside of Atlanta. Visit her at www.joshilynjackson.com.
Rose Mae Lolley is a devoted Texas housewife who is desperately trying to hold her dysfunctional marriage together as she seesaws between coping with her abusive husband and battling her own compliant personality. Joshilyn Jackson's sassy Texas twang details Rose Mae's unraveling as she stumbles upon a gypsy fortune-teller who appears to know just about everything about her life and who convinces her that her husband will murder her unless she kills him first. Complications ensue as Rose Mae discovers messages from her estranged mother that help her discover and resolve more mysteries about herself. Jackson escorts the listener as Rose Mae evolves into a determined, introspective gunslinger who is intent on tricking fate. B.J.P. © AudioFile 2010, Portland, Maine
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