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Hi Kathleen! I am really enjoying our blog tour!I just wanted to say that if there are any readers out there who would like to ask me a question about the book, that would be my great pleasure!
Also, if anyone is part of a book club and you'd like to feature Between The Cracks She Fell, I would be honoured to take part in any discussions, either online or in person (if you're in Toronto!)
Thank you very much!
Best,
Lisa
PS I am hoping you will stop by http://thewriterslife.blogspot.ca/201...We discuss the idea behind the book, how hard it was to write this book and, what I am really trying to say with this novel.
I hope you will enjoy!
FictionZeal shines a spotlight on Between The Cracks She Fell! http://bit.ly/1O979Yb I'm loving all the love for this book!
New book spotlight today at Teatime and Books! http://bit.ly/1FSgfr4
I hope readers will enjoy the sound of the book. If anyone has any questions that they'd like to ask, I'd love to chat! And if you have any book clubs you'd like me to participate in, that would be great.
This novel certainly opens up a lot of discussion points, I hope you will agree!
Next Blog Tour Stop features The Story Behind The Book of Between The Cracks She Fell! http://bit.ly/1LeCLGF
The Literature Exchange shines a spotlight on Between The Cracks She Fell - http://bit.ly/1Pi7PeHI hope you will enjoy! If you have any questions about the book, I would love to chat!
And, if you have a book club in Toronto (or you'd like to skype a book club from elsewhere, I'd love that!)
Thank you!
The award-winning author of The Hungry Mirror, West of Wawa, Glittering Chaos and The Witchdoctor’s Bones delivers an original and riveting new novel about societal betrayal, familial loss and religious jihad. A suspenseful and lyrical read, Between The Cracks She Fell is a powerful-first person narrative about the explosive consequences of betrayal, survival in troubled times and the pervasiveness of religious domination.
When Joss finds herself having to make mortgage payments without help from her depressed, stoner boyfriend who has just moved out, and the company she works for folds leaving her suddenly unemployed, she is forced to sell her house, on which she takes a financial loss. She decides to camp out in a vacant complex of school buildings to give herself time to decide what to do next. It turns out the building is used by a gang of teenagers for wild, drug-fueled parties and Jess soon finds herself both repelled by their charismatic evil leader, as well as sexually attracted to him. She knows he is dangerous even before she finds his girlfriend’s dead and violently abused body in the school library. During this time, she meets and befriends two other people in difficulty: Emma, a narcissistic thief living with her dog in a stolen car and Ashley, a young homosexual who is heartbroken by the fact that he has been expelled from the Jehovah’s Witness church because he is gay. When her former boyfriend reappears as a born again Christian, Joss is immersed in a journal she found that contains the thoughts of a Muslim teenager who becomes increasingly radicalized. Her struggle to understand her former boyfriend and this young man’s spiritual quests prepare her to make some hard decisions about her future. Between the Cracks She Fell is about a woman who falls off the grid and the explosive consequences of betrayal, survival in troubled times, and the pervasiveness of religious domination.
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