Enlisting Thalia’s help, Laurel sets out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about her family’s guarded past, the true state of her marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming. “Joshilyn Jackson has done it again her skillful unraveling of family secrets and betrayal left me breathless. You must read this book!”. My favorite book by Joshilyn Jackson is A Grown Up Kind of Pretty. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming is my second favorite. Her titles do not reflect well what her books are about. Do not judge by the titles! I could not put down this book. I loved her character building for EACH character/5(). Richer and more rewarding than any story Joshilyn Jackson has yet written, yet still packed with Jackson's trademarked outrageous characters, sparkling dialogue, and defiantly twisting plotting, THE GIRL WHO STOPPED SWIMMING is destined both to delight Jackson's loyal fans and capture a /5().
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming by Joshilyn Jackson starting at $ The Girl Who Stopped Swimming has 6 available editions to buy at Half Price Books Marketplace. Richer and more rewarding than any story Joshilyn Jackson has yet written, yet still packed with Jackson's trademarked outrageous characters, sparkling dialogue, and defiantly twisting plotting, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming is destined both to delight Jackson's loyal fans and capture a whole new audience. Art, and what constitutes true art, is one of the earliest questions raised in The Girl Who Stopped Swimming. Thalia clearly dismisses Laurel's quilts as handicraft, not art. What, in your opinion, is "true art?" Is there such a thing? 2. Laurel's mother brings canned goods and toys to DeLop, but she has severed all emotional connections.
Richer and more rewarding than any story Joshilyn Jackson has yet written, yet still packed with Jackson's trademarked outrageous characters, sparkling dialogue, and defiantly twisting plotting, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming is destined both to delight Jackson's loyal fans and capture a whole new audience. Related collections and offers. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming is the third Jackson book I've read and again takes as its setting the dark underbelly of Southern USA life. Central character Laurel Hawthorne is happily married to husband David. The Girl Who Stopped Swimming. by Joshilyn Jackson. Lauren Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty, whether she's helping her mother keep family skeletons in the closet or sewing her acclaimed art quilts. Her estranged sister, Thalia, is her opposite, an impoverished actress who prides herself on exposing the lurid truths lurking behind middle class niceties.
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