by: Janelle Brown
Goodreads description:
The first thing you have to understand is that my father was my entire world.
Growing up in an isolated cabin in Montana in the mid-1990s, Jane knows only the world that she and her father live the woodstove that heats their home, the vegetable garden where they try to eke out a subsistence existence, the books of nineteenth-century philosophy that her father gives her to read in lieu of going to school. Her father is elusive about their pasts, giving Jane little beyond the facts that they once lived in the Bay Area and that her mother died in a car accident, the crash propelling him to move Jane off the grid to raise her in a Thoreau-like utopia.
As Jane becomes a teenager she starts pushing against the boundaries of her restricted world. She begs to accompany her father on his occasional trips away from the cabin. But when Jane realizes that her devotion to her father has made her an accomplice to a horrific crime, she flees Montana to the only place she knows to look for answers about her mysterious past, and her mother’s San Francisco. It is a city in the midst of a seismic change, where her quest to understand herself will force her to reckon with both the possibilities and the perils of the fledgling Internet, and where she will come to question everything she values.
Helen says: 🤓🤓🤓🤓
My favorite read this month…lots of anticipation and build up for this release date! I absolutely loved Brown’s last book, Pretty Things, so I knew I would devour this book. It really delivered- what a story. I don’t want to tell you anything more as not to spoil it…
Holly says: 🤓🤓🤓🤓
I thoroughly enjoyed this book- it’s a great story! Very original and probably my favorite book of the month. What a crazy life for Jane…I don’t want to say too much because I don’t want to give anything away. Imagine if your dad was the Unabomber and your mother was questionably worse…Read it!
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