I listened to Joshilyn Jackson read A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty to me. The story is set in Mississippi and I enjoy reading stories set in the deep south because it's warmer down there than it is here. This wonderful story is about the three Slocum women. Jenny, known as Big, is 45. At age 15 she got pregnant and was kicked out of her home and out of her church. Her daughter, Liza, also had a child at age 15. Mosey is the child now turning 15 and is paranoid about becoming pregnant to the point where she takes pregnancy tests even though she is not sexually active. These three complicated women live together. Big and Mosey help Liza who suffered a stroke and is unable to care for herself. This family drama is made all the better by having a reader with a southern accent pronounce the words.
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