Author Last Name,
Author First Name,
Genre,
Pages,
Binding,
ISBN 10,
ISBN 13,
Condition,
Publisher,
Date Published,
Specifications
Author Last Name:
Blanton-Stroud
Author First Name:
Shelley
Genre:
WHO-DUNNIT MYSTERIES
Pages:
264
Binding:
Paperback
ISBN 10:
1631526979
ISBN 13:
9781631526978
Condition:
Used
Publisher:
She Writes Press
Date Published:
2020-06-23T00:00:00.000Z
Description
“This is Raymond Chandler for feminists.” ―Sharma Shields, author of The Cassandra
“An expressive and striking story that examines what one does for family and for oneself.” ―Kirkus Reviews
Jane’s a very brave boy. And a very difficult girl. She’ll become a remarkable woman, an icon of her century, but that’s a long way off.
Not my fault, she thinks, dropping a bloody crowbar in the irrigation ditch after Daddy. She steals Momma’s Ford and escapes to Depression-era San Francisco, where she fakes her way into work as a newspaper copy boy.
Everything’s looking up. She’s climbing the ladder at the paper, winning validation, skill, and connections with the artists and thinkers of her day. But then Daddy reappears on the paper’s front page, his arm around a girl who’s just been beaten into a coma one block from Jane’s newspaper―hit in the head with a crowbar.
Jane’s got to find Daddy before he finds her, and before everyone else finds her out. She’s got to protect her invented identity. This is what she thinks she wants. It’s definitely what her dead brother wants.
