The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
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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.While Laurel's life seems neatly on track-- a passionate marriage, a treasured daughter, a lovely suburban home-- everything she holds dear is threatened the night she is visited by the ghost of her 13-year-old neighbor Molly. The ghost leads Laurel to the real Molly, floating lifelessly in the Hawthorne's backyard pool. Molly's death is an unseemly mystery that no one in her whitewashed neighborhood is up to solving. Laurel enlists Thalia's help, even though she knows it comes with a high price tag.
Together, they set out on a life-altering journey that triggers startling revelations about their family's haunted past, the true state of Laurel's marriage, and the girl who stopped swimming.
Joshilyn Jackson is the New York Times bestselling author of Backseat Saints, Gods in Alabama, Between, Georgia, The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, and A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty. Her books have been translated into a dozen languages and short-listed for the Townsend Prize. Jackson won the SIBA Book Award for Fiction in 2005, and, as a former actor, was nominated for an Audie Award and received a Listen Up Award from Publishers Weekly. She lives in Decatur, Georgia, with her husband and their two children.
| SKU | Unavailable |
| ISBN 13 | 9780446579650 |
| ISBN 10 | 0446579653 |
| Title | The Girl Who Stopped Swimming |
| Author | Joshilyn Jackson |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Hardback |
| Publisher | Grand Central Publishing |
| Year published | 2008-03-01 |
| Number of pages | 311 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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