Usually when Kayleigh tells me to read something, I immediately put it in the TBR pile. In this instance, she and Kirkus are in agreement so after I finish We Are Water, I am getting on that train. Someone Else's Love Story by Joshilyn Jackson is "a surprising novel, both graceful and tender. You won’t be able to put it down" – Kirkus.
It
seems like an ordinary hot summer day. Single mom Shandi Pierce, her
three-year-old son Natty, and her best friend Walcott stop for gas at a
Circle K. While Walcott fills the tank, Shandi and Natty go inside the
store for a cold drink. Shandi is in line when
the door opens and a stumpy man with a baseball cap pulled low over his
forehead walks in. In his hand is a rusty, old silver pistol.
Minutes
later there’s been a shooting, and everyone in the store is on the
floor, taken hostage. All of these strangers are carrying secrets that
will cause their lives to intersect in a most surprising way.
“Jackson’s novel perfectly captures the flavor and rhythm of Southern life as a young woman preparing for college finds herself caught up in a real-life drama. . . . Jackson draws on her own Southern roots to paint this pitch-perfect portrait of a girl from a small town in Georgia. . . . Wrapped in thoughtful, often funny and insightful narrative . . . Jackson presents the reader with a story that is never predictable and is awash in bittersweet love, regret and the promise of what could be." – Kirkus
You can get an egalley over on Edelweiss, and then please let us know what you think!
– Annie