(I say "usually", this has only happened to me once - AND the publisher mailed me a free replacement!)

I usually keep it and contact the publisher so they're aware!

and the fact that, though I thought it was super well known, pretty much nobody I work with or am related to know the twist. Handed it off to an ag science teacher, he is in for a SHOCK

If you haven't read it, it's a short enough read. I definitely recommend it to fans of the genre!

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(I would like to thank everyone for their patience when I forgot the word "fiction" and replaces it with "drama stories" 😅)

I think the blending of horror with contemporary drama stories is what I really like about his writing! But I get it's not everyone's favorite 😊

Fern, Holly, Zinnia, Rose, Charlie Brown, Blossom, Hagar, Miriam - they won't leave my heart anytime soon.

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I cried in this book, happy tears and angry tears. Grady Hendrix has an uncanny way of embracing grief, empathy and hope in a way that I admire greatly. There were moments where I had to put the book down to breathe.

Neva/Fern is a pregnant teenager in 1970s America, and is shipped off to a home for unmarried mothers in Florida. Over the the period of her incarceration, she and the girls around her come to totally new ways of seeing the world, 💫groovy💫 and mundane