Author Sheri Reynolds - Sweet In-Between

Sweet In-Between
Hardback: Crown/Shaye Areheart, $23 (224p)
ISBN 978-0-307-39389-0

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"The newest and most exciting voice to emerge in contemporary Southern fiction."
- San Francisco Bay Guardian

Bestseller Reynolds (The Rapture of Canaan) delivers again with this story of an embattled teenage girl growing up in a Virginia tidewater town. Kendra "Kenny" Lugo has it tough: her mother is dead, her father is in jail, and she is what others might call gender-confused ("the year before I cut off all my hair and started binding myself up").

Living with her father's girlfriend, Aunt Glo, Kenny is approaching 18 and facing the possibility of being kicked out with a sense of impending doom.

When their neighbor, habitually drunk Jarvis Stanley, accidentally kills a college girl, Kenny becomes fixated on the tragedy.

Meanwhile, Aunt Glo struggles with painkiller addiction while raising her own kids, 12-year-old Quincy and teenaged Tim-Tim, and her runaway daughter's seven-year-old, Daphne. Kenny makes a fascinating, cagey narrator, revealing an unexpectedly dangerous family dynamic with a matter-of-factness that belies her fear and anger, and Reynolds weds expository memories with Kenny's day-to-day so seamlessly, it looks easy.

Simple prose rich with subtext, convincing dialogue and a fascinating protagonist combine to produce a heartstring-plucker that's explicit, tender, sad and hopeful. (Nov.)

- Fiction Reviews
-- Publishers Weekly, 8/25/2008

Contact Sheri for questions and comments. Please note that due to the high volume of email received, she cannot guarantee a personal response.


"...a heartstring-plucker that's explicit, tender, sad and hopeful" - Publisher's Weekly coming Nov 2008 Sheri's Novels The Firefly Cloak, a novel Bitterroot Landing, a novel Rapture of Canaan, a novel A Gracious Plenty, a novel About Sheri Reynolds Resources for Students Other Works Orabelle's Wheelbarrow: A Play	*Sweet In-Between* Hardback: Crown/Shaye Areheart, $23 (224p) ISBN 978-0-307-39389-0 $$ Click here to go to IndieBound where you can order this book from an independent bookseller in your area. "The newest and most exciting voice to emerge in contemporary Southern fiction." - San Francisco Bay Guardian Bestseller Reynolds (The Rapture of Canaan) delivers again with this story of an embattled teenage girl growing up in a Virginia tidewater town. Kendra "Kenny" Lugo has it tough: her mother is dead, her father is in jail, and she is what others might call gender-confused ("the year before I cut off all my hair and started binding myself up"). Living with her father's girlfriend, Aunt Glo, Kenny is approaching 18 and facing the possibility of being kicked out with a sense of impending doom. When their neighbor, habitually drunk Jarvis Stanley, accidentally kills a college girl, Kenny becomes fixated on the tragedy. Meanwhile, Aunt Glo struggles with painkiller addiction while raising her own kids, 12-year-old Quincy and teenaged Tim-Tim, and her runaway daughter's seven-year-old, Daphne. Kenny makes a fascinating, cagey narrator, revealing an unexpectedly dangerous family dynamic with a matter-of-factness that belies her fear and anger, and Reynolds weds expository memories with Kenny's day-to-day so seamlessly, it looks easy. Simple prose rich with subtext, convincing dialogue and a fascinating protagonist combine to produce a heartstring-plucker that's explicit, tender, sad and hopeful. (Nov.) - Fiction Reviews -- Publishers Weekly, 8/25/2008 Contact Sheri for questions and comments. Please note that due to the high volume of email received, she cannot guarantee a personal response.
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