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Warner Books

ISBN: 0446524425

July 2006

General Fiction

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Reviewed By 

Tracy Farnsworth

 

Between, Georgia is a tiny town with a population of approximately 90 people.  A long running feud between two families, Crabtree and Frett, exists for typical reasons.  The Crabtree members (white through and through) cannot believe that they are lower on the totem pole than the Frett family who are part Native American.  Animosity exists due to the Crabtree's hatred and the Frett women do what they can to live their lives while ignoring Ona Crabtree, the matriarch.

One evening, Bernese (Frett), a nurse, awakens to a pounding on her doorstep.  Bernese and her husband go downstairs to discover a frantic fifteen-year-old Hazel Crabtree in labor.  Sensing trouble, Bernese's sisters, Stacia and Genny (also her neighbors) rush to help.  Stacia is deaf and going blind and Genny suffers from trichotrillomania (an obsessive compulsive disorder where one pulls out their hair when stressed) so the three sisters maintain an extremely close bond.  After a baby girl is born, Hazel announces she wants nothing to do with the baby.  Meanwhile, Stacia has decided the baby is hers and refuses to give the baby up.  In the wee hours, Bernese calls her lawyer and arranges an illegal adoption--one that will propel the feud between the Crabtree and Frett families into new heights.

Thirty years later, the baby, Nonny, is now a grown woman facing a divorce.  A tragedy brings her back to Between, Georgia where she must rely on her birth lines to bring peace to a small town and to the two families who brought her into the world.

BETWEEN, GEORGIA is highly enjoyable, but it can take a little time to get adjusted to the writing style.  There is a lot of flipping back and forth between characters and time periods.  There is far more to the storyline that I am able to tell without going into spoilers, but there is a touch of romance, suspense, and drama.  The setting springs to life, while the characters become so real you hate having to leave them.  If you can handle plots that jump around, definitely pick up BETWEEN, GEORGIA.

 

 

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