Between, Georgia

Library Journal Review: After a great debut with Gods in Alabama, Jackson's follow-up poses the same dilemma for readers: you can't wait to finish it but don't want it to end. Between, GA, is a real place?it lies between Athens and Atlanta?but Jackson's little town is fictional. Thirty-year-old Nonny exemplifies between: she works as an interpreter for the deaf in Athens, yet the folks she loves are in Between; her erstwhile husband is in Athens, but a little girl in Between owns her heart. Plus, two local feuding clans make Nonny a Frett by name but a Crabtree by birth. Jackson gives us Southern chick lit with a twist while she explores, mostly through spunky female characters, the themes of family obligations, nature vs. nurture, the mysteries of love, and the gods at work. While the subplot with Nonny's husband stretches credulity at times, the characters, especially Nonny's deaf-blind mother and her two polar opposite aunts, are spot on. Jackson's got a winner, and public libraries will definitely need multiple copies.?Rebecca Kelm, Northern Kentucky Univ. Lib., Highland Heights Copyright ? Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved.