Pam's Book 24: Between, Georgia

I'm in Atlanta for a couple weeks, and I thought I packed enough books to get me through. Turns out I didn't, which shouldn't surprise me. There are never enough books to get me through. I took a trip to one of East Atlanta's used bookstores and looked through the staff recommendations. A different book by Joshilyn Jackson was recommended, but they didn't have a used copy (the store sells new books, too); there was only this.

At birth, Nonnie repulsed her teenage mother so much that one of the neighbors who helped give birth adopted Nonnie. Nonnie's adoptive mother is deaf and is slowly going blind, a process long completed by the time Nonnie reaches adulthood. The story takes place in the little town of Between, Georgia, yet, of course, the word "between" applies to much of Nonnie's life. She's between divorcing and not divorcing her husband, she lives her life between Athens and Between, she translates for deaf people and lives between that and the hearing world, she's between mother and aunt to her small abandoned cousin Fisher. By the end of the book, the betweens have mostly been resolved.

This was another light but well written summer read. I've passed the book onto my grandmother and plan to read more of Jackson's novels before the summer is over.