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Gods in Alabama [Mass Market Paperback]

Joshilyn Jackson (Author)
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Book Description

Publication Date: Dec 2007
When Lena Fleet goes to college, she makes three promises to God: she will stop fornicating with every boy she meets; never tell another lie and never, ever go back to her hometown of Possett, Alabama. All she wants from God in return is that He makes sure the body is never found...



But ten years later, it looks like God's going back on His deal. Lena's high school archenemy appears on her doorstep, looking for the golden haired football god who disappeared during their senior year. To make matters worse, her African American boyfriend has issued her with an ultimatum - introduce him to her lily-white family or he's gone...



While she would rather burn in a fire than let him meet her steel magnolia Aunt Florence, her half-mad Mama, her sweet-as-pecan-pie cousin Clarice and the rest of her eccentric and racist family, Lena realises it is time to go home to Alabama and confront the past once and for all...
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  • Mass Market Paperback: 303 pages
  • Publisher: Grand Central Publishing; Reprint edition (Dec 2007)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0446178160
  • ISBN-13: 978-0446178167
  • Product Dimensions: 10.8 x 2.2 x 17.1 cm
  • Average Customer Review: 4.1 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (21 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 2,722,307 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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'Joshilyn Jackson's stellar debut has all the elements of great southern fiction, a plucky heroine with a sense of humour, a gripping tale and a mysterious dead body that needs explanation. Arlene Fleet, with a crystal clear voice and purpose takes the reader on a wild ride of despair, hope and redemption that no reader is likely to ever forget. What a storyteller! What a new, original voice!'
Adriana Trigiani, author of Lucia, Lucia

'Now there's a new Southern talent and Jackson's debut is a startling page turner... This is a beautifully crafted, sassy novel, where nothing is quite as it seems, and the way the final pieces of the jigsaw slot together... should surprise even the most jaded of readers.' (Glamour )

'This winning novel is the kind that readers crave: you can't stop turning the pages, but you wish it would never end. If Gods in Alabama becomes a best-seller, I won't be a bit surprised'
Christina Schwarz, author of Drowning Ruth

'If you're looking for a lively, fun, yet compelling read, you've come to the right place!' (Cassandra King, author of The Sunday Wife )

'I couldn't put this book down. From the first chapter, the plot leaps forward, and it doesn't stop twisting and turning until the last page . . . Funky and cool' (Melanie Sumner, author of The School of Beauty )

'GODS IN ALABAMA is a compelling, darkly humorous read that kept me turning the pages' (Haywood Smith, author of The Red Hats Ride Agai ) --This text refers to the Paperback edition.

About the Author

Joshilyn Jackson was born and grew up in the Deep South. A former actress and award-winning teacher, she is now a full-time writer. Joshilyn lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her husband and their two children, and is currently writing her second novel. You can visit her website at www.joshilynjackson.com. --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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25 of 26 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars WOW - brilliantly different! 15 Aug 2005
By A Customer
Format:Paperback
Bit of a cliche but I just couldn't put this down. There are so many books out there that you feel you've read before, but this is just so different. Right at the start you're intrigued to learn that the heroine Arlene promised God that she'd never go back to her family in Alabama as long as he made sure that the body of the 'god' that she killed in high school was never found. Then you start to uncover what led up to the murder and there are loads of twists along the way. It wasn't just the mystery that had me hooked though - the Deep South setting and the eccentric characters are brilliant, especially Arlene who is fiery, funny and sad and had me cheering her on to the end. A refreshingly good book from a writer who I'm definitely going to look out for in the future.
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4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
4.0 out of 5 stars Ooozing with southern style 31 Aug 2005
By "scordon7"
Format:Paperback
Although this debut could never top the tales of the Deep South as written by Fannie Flagg, Jackson shows talent in depicting the tragic in a way which is easy to relate to. It is well worth reading this book for the falshbacks alone, which set the real tone of the story - allowing readers to sample the ups and downs of living along the southern bible belt. For anyone who has ever had a skeleton in their carefully arranged closet; this book is for you.
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
3.0 out of 5 stars Ditsy half-wit gets it all wrong 15 Sep 2009
By Eileen Shaw TOP 1000 REVIEWER
Format:Paperback
There is something far too cosy about this rather cutie-pie girlhood in Alabama novel. Something rather too teen-slot about its overheated sexual longings and bad behaviour. Lena (or Arlene, depending upon who you are talking to), has a black boyfriend, Burr (a name that almost tells you all you need to know about him), but that's not the reason why she has stayed away in Chicago for ten years or more rather than go home for any holidays or Christmas dinners. Something happened when she and her cousin Clarice were teenagers (a rape and a death, or so Lena thinks).

Everything is satisfactorily brought into the open at long last and things aren't as bad as Lena imagined. The problem is Lena - whether in girlhood or adulthood, she's the same ditsy half-wit who can't really see what's under her nose. This was an okay read, especially towards the denouement when irritating things about Lena are explained. So so.
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4.0 out of 5 stars Great storyteller
I didn't know what to expect from "Gods in Alabama" but I was pleasantly surprised, what a storyteller. Read more
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I'm not a lover of chick-lit, and although this technically isn't part of that genre, this is the closest I would venture. Read more
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4.0 out of 5 stars Entertaining
I read this book in three or four sittings and loved the characters more as the story progressed. My favourite was Aunt Florence, laughing out loud at the way she spoke to the... Read more
Published on 4 Aug 2009 by Morag Noakes
3.0 out of 5 stars Are There Really Gods in Alabama?
Not a bad attempt at a first novel, but like many other writers' first novels, Gods in Alabama is a very basic start for Jackson in which the plot simply floats along with not much... Read more
Published on 27 Oct 2008 by Whatchulookinat?
5.0 out of 5 stars Synopsis from back cover
When Lena Fleet went to college, she promised God she would stop fornicating with every boy she met, never tell another lie and never, ever go back to her hometown in Alabama. Read more
Published on 22 Oct 2008 by Mary_10
1.0 out of 5 stars Disappointing, unbelievable ...pointless.
I was disappointed in this book; I felt the plot denouement was far-fetched and ridiculous and it made me feel that I had wasted my time reading it.
Published on 17 Sep 2008 by Becky Sharpe
5.0 out of 5 stars I want more!
5 stars, because I was completely gripped while reading it and it stayed with me after I'd put it down. Read more
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