Thanks to Kaitlyn McCrystal of Touchstone Publicity: Simon & Schuster, Inc, I am giving away one copy of The Next Time You See Me by Holly Goddard Jones.


Book Description:


“The Next Time You See Me is an astoundingly good novel. Holly Goddard Jones writes with authority and a deep generosity about a large swath of humanity within a small town: Outsiders and insiders, middle-schoolers and the middle-aged, the violent and the violated, the lost and the found—and all those in between. The result is simply mesmerizing.”-Gillian Flynn


 Thirteen-year-old Emily Houchens doesn’t quite fit in.  She is more at home playing make-believe in the woods near her house in Roma, Kentucky, than with her classmates. When she happens upon a dead body hidden in the woods one day, she decides not to tell anyone about her discovery—a choice that begins to haunt her.  Susanna Mitchell has always been responsible.  She keeps a neat house, a respectable job, and is a dutiful wife and mother.  But when her hard-drinking unpredictable sister Ronnie goes missing, Susanna starts to question the value of her quiet life.
Connected in ways they cannot begin to imagine, Emily and Susanna’s stories converge with others like Tony Joyce, the failed baseball prodigy now detective in the town he tried so hard to get away from; and Wyatt Powell, a 55-year-old factory worker living alone with his dog Boss, tortured by a past he can’t change and a love he doesn’t think he deserves resulting in a violent climax that reveals not just the mystery of what happened to Ronnie but all of their secret selves.   


About Holly Goddard Jones:


Holly Goddard Jones is the author of the critically acclaimed short story collection Girl Trouble. Her work has appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South, Tin House magazine, and elsewhere.  She was a 2013 recipient of The Fellowship of Southern Writers’ Hillsdale Award for Excellence in Fiction and a 2007 recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award.  She teaches in the creative writing program at UNC Greensboro and lives in Greensboro with her husband, Brandon, and two rowdy dogs.                                                                       


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