The Gin Girl - Hardcover

Jordan, River

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1931982163 ISBN 13: 9781931982160

Publisher: Livingston Pr, 2003

Synopsis

A sultry Florida adventure complete with drug dealers, a hurricane, a snake woman selling - and occasionally dispensing - venom, this first novel offers plenty of setting and surprises. Set in northern Florida, which anyone familiar with Florida knows is not of Florida, just as Florida is not of the South, we follow a barmaid returning to her island home after hearing her dead father calling to her in a dream, "It's time to come home, Mary." And for her it is time, after several years of wandering the country. But the tranquility of a homecoming and settling down aren't in the cards, even though she lands a waitress job at the bar her childhood sweetheart used to own. Mary immediately becomes obsessed with learning the "facts," about her childhood sweetheart's murder. But facts are slippery, especially when people want to hide them. And when people sorely want to hide facts, searching them out can become dangerous.

About this title

About the Author:

River Jordan is a playwright and an avid promoter of the written word. She lives between the swamps and saltwaters of the Florida Gulf Coast where she spends her time contemplating quantum physics and other mystical realities.

Jordan is the creator of the mythical storyteller, Mama Jewels. She serves on the Foundation Board for the Northwest Florida Regional Library and for the Florida Network of Children’s Advocacy Centers. She is a founding member of the West Florida Playwrights Project. Jordan is the mother of two courageous sons—Nick and Chris—and wife of Owen Hicks, a superhero in disguise.

From Booklist:

Jordan vividly evokes the steamy, tropical climate of Toliquilah, a Gulf Coast island in North Florida, as she recounts the adventures of Mary, a local who returns home to search for her high-school sweetheart, Joe. Mary has been drifting and drinking Jack Daniels all over the South since her father's death, but she is obsessed with memories of Joe. None of the island's strange inhabitants--including a one-armed diner cook, a liquor-store proprietor who speaks in riddles, and an old blind woman who milks snakes--knows what really happened to Joe, but most assume he is dead, probably murdered. Mary's investigation raises as many questions as it answers and causes almost as much upheaval as the hurricane that strikes the region while she searches for clues. The plot moves as slowly as the air in the swamps, but those who crave atmosphere rather than action will find much to savor in this humid thriller. Barbara Bibel
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About this edition

• Publisher: Livingston Pr
• Publication date: 2003
• ISBN 10: 1931982163
• ISBN 13: 9781931982160
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 258