Today Sophia Rose is reviewing a Southern coming of age story
Enjoy!
Southern Fiction
Publisher:
Sourcebooks Landmark
Published: 7.12.22
Pages: 306
Rating: 3.5 stars
Format: eARC
Source: NetGalley
Sellers: Amazon
ADD TOO: GoodReads
GoodReads Blurb:
The backwaters of Georgia hold many buried secrets. But they
won't stay buried forever.
One hot, sticky summer in Bledsoe, Georgia, twelve-year-old Kay Whitaker stumbles
across a stilt house in a neighboring marsh and upon Andy Webber, a boy about
her age. He and his father have recently moved back to Georgia from California,
and rumors of the suspicious drowning death of Andy's mother years earlier have
chased them there and back.
Kay is fascinated and enamored with Andy, and she doesn't listen when her
father tells her to stay away from the Webbers. But when Kay's sister goes
missing, the mystery of Mrs. Webber's death—and Kay's parents' potential role
in it—comes to light. Kay and her brothers must navigate the layers of secrets
that emerge in the course of the investigation as their family, and the world
as they knew it, unravels around them.
At once wickedly funny and heartbreaking, it is an immersive coming-of-age
story narrated by a feisty, smart, yet undeniably vulnerable girl reminiscent
of a modern-day Scout Finch—a character who will live in readers' hearts for a
long time to come.
