A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty: A Novel

A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty: A Novel by Jackson, Joshilyn. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781455507276.

A Grown Up Kind of Pretty is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb -- spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood -- is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in the backyard, and determined to figure out why its there. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mother, is haunted by choices she made as a teenager. But it is Jenny, Moseys strong and big-hearted grandmother, whose maternal love braids together the strands of the womens shared past -- and who will stop at nothing to defend their future.