Billie Starr's Book of Sorries

A Novel

Billie Starr's Book of Sorries
Deborah E Kennedy
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Hardback
h235 x 156mm - 320pg
4 Oct 2022 US
International import eta 7-19 days
9781250138439
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Jenny Newberg, Queen of Bad Decisions, is about to make another one. In a small town where everyone knows everyone' s business, down-on-her-luck single mother Jenny is on a first-name basis with the debt collector at the bank, who is moving toward foreclosure. She is constantly apologizing to her precocious young daughter, Billie Starr, who is filling a book with her mother' s sorries, and it seems to Jenny that no apology will ever be enough. Then a pair of strangers in black suits offers her a hefty check to seduce someone known as the Candidate. Finally, something will go her way. But nothing ever goes as Jenny plans, and she is swept into the Candidate' s orbit. Surrounded by a wide universe of new ideas, she realizes how constrained her life has been by the expectations of everyone around her, and she starts to see how much more she might be capable of. And when her world is rocked to its core and Billie Starr may be in danger, Jenny is forced to do what she once thought impossible: trust in herself and her own power to make things right. Shimmering with rage and sparkling with subtle humor, Billie Starr' s Book of Sorries showcases Edgar Award-nominee Kennedy' s singular voice as Jenny, a heroine in the vein of Olive Kitteridge and Miles Roby, shines a light on the town of Benson, Indiana, where lakes, grudges, and family rifts run deep - but so does a mother' s love.
"An enthralling suspense thriller. . . Exquisite prose matches deep characterization. Kennedy deserves to win an Edgar with this captivating sophomore effort. " --Publishers Weekly, starred review"Funny yet bitingly realistic look at small-town life. . . Kennedy excels at writing quirky characters and entertaining dialogue. . . A grim literary mystery and a hopeful family story, this genre-blending novel manages to be both charming and heartbreaking. " --Kirkus"Adeptly delves into the intricacies of interpersonal relationships within small-town life, much like Elizabeth Strout' s Olive Kitteridge. " --Library Journal"Billie Starr' s Book of Sorries is a book of righteous anger, a book of hard-earned hope, a book of laugh-out-loud humor, and, above all, a book of deep love--between mother and daughter, neighbor and friend, barback and grocer and a delightful cast of unlikely small-town bedfellows--but mostly between the reader and these wonderful pages. " --Laurie Frankel, bestselling author of This Is How It Always Is"Compelling, compassionate, and deliciously comic, Billie Starr' s Book of Sorries is the story of a struggling single mother who makes some highly questionable choices--and falls in with some pretty low companions--to provide for her precocious (and hilarious) young daughter. Deborah Kennedy' s writing is so smart and vigorous and big-souled, I loved every moment spent with these beleaguered but resilient humans who, like the best of us, somehow, exhilaratingly, muddle through. " --Michelle Huneven, NBCC and LA Times Book Award finalist and author of Search and Off CourseBillie Starr' s Book of Sorries is such an incredibly touching dive into the world of a struggling single mom who has to make bad decisions for the good of her daughter. This book is searingly honest about small town life, and the claustrophobia that comes with it. There are no bad people, just bad choices. Loved reading this, and can' t wait for more from Deborah Kennedy! --Amina Akhtar, author of Kismet and #FashionVictim"A heartfelt and expertly crafted exploration of motherhood and finding the shimmering possibilities in oneself. Kennedy' s writing cuts open small-town Midwestern America, delivering grit, gossip, and generational relationships that bleed through a life both as an anchor of familiarity and as a shackle against hope. A deeply empathetic and nuanced second novel, which solidifies Kennedy as a master of illuminating the intricacies, mythos, and pain of Main Street USA. " --Sequoia Nagamatsu, bestselling author of How High We Go in the Dark"A rollicking, zany novel about a single mother scraping by in small town America that examines the politics of power, beauty, and family. " --Ash Davidson, acclaimed author of Damnation Spring
Deborah E. Kennedy is a native of Fort Wayne, Indiana and a graduate of the Iowa Writers' Workshop. Kennedy has worked as both a reporter and editor, and also holds a master' s in Fiction Writing and English Literature from Miami University in Oxford, Ohio. Her debut novel, Tornado Weather, was nominated for an Edgar Award.
Status: No local stock, title imported to order
ISBN-13: 9781250138439
Published: 4 Oct 2022
Published In: United States
Imprint: Flatiron Books
Publisher: Flatiron Books
Format: Hardback
Height: 235mm
Width: 156mm
Spine: 28mm
Pages: 320

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