Fifteen is not a good number for the women in the Slocumb family. When Ginny (Big) was fifteen, she found out she was pregnant with Liza. When Liza was fifteen, she found out that she was pregnant with Mosey. Now that Mosey is fifteen, both Big and Liza watch her like a hawk to make sure that any males who possess a certain body part do not place Mosey in the same predicament that Big and Liza found themselves in at that tender age. Mosey, headstrong in her own right, feels the pressure of being a Slocumb woman in small town Mississippi and knows better than to get her fifteen-year-old self pregnant, which is why she keeps a secret stash of pregnancy tests underneath her floorboard.
Big is well aware that every fifteenth year brings its challenges, but no amount of superstition could have prepared her for the family mystery that begins to unravel as soon as she digs up Liza’s weeping willow in the back yard. Liza, the one person who could answer all of Big’s questions, has been silenced by a stroke at the age of thirty and cannot help Big as she tries to piece together the events of the past fifteen years. Somewhere between trying to keep her family from being ripped apart by what was once a buried down deep secret and keeping a watchful eye on Mosey, Big manages to rekindle an old love that she thought was all but done with.
Through the three voices of Big, Liza and Mosey, Joshilyn Jackson (New York Times Bestselling Author of Gods in Alabama) weaves a southern tale with plenty of plot twists to keep the pages turning. But mostly, A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty is a testament to the powerful force of love and the unexpected paths that life and family can lead.
by Anna
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