A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty by Joshilyn Jackson is a wild roller coaster of a ride through the deep South. We follow three generations of Slocumb women aged 45, 30, and 15 in small town Mississippi as they try to uncover the truth about the bones found underneath the old willow tree in the backyard.
Jackson writes like no other, and this novel kept me up half the night trying to unravel all the plot twists and turns to figure out what was really going on. The book takes you to many places in the deep South you'd never like to return to, but this is the place young Mosey, the books heroine, comes from.
I liked Jackson's earlier novel, Gods in Alabama, but I like A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty even better. It grabs you and won't let go.
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