By Ruta Sepetys
“A haunting peek on the lifetime of a teenage woman in Fifties New Orleans.”--Entertainment Weekly
It’s 1950, and because the French region of latest Orleans simmers with secrets and techniques, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her personal. recognized between locals because the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie desires extra out of existence than the large effortless has to supply. She devises a plan get out, yet a mysterious demise within the zone leaves Josie tangled in an research that would problem her allegiance to her mom, her judgment of right and wrong, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti highway.
Josie is stuck among the dream of an elite university and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures her in her quest for fact, dangling temptation at each flip, and escalating to the final word test.
With characters as appealing as these in her across the world bestselling novel Between colours of Gray, Ruta Sepetys skillfully creates a wealthy tale of secrets and techniques, lies, and the haunting reminder that judgements can form our destiny.
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