In Girl Trouble, acclaimed writer Holly Goddard Jones examines small-town Southerners aching to be good, even as they live in doubt about what goodness is.A high school basketball coach learns that his star player is pregnant--with his child. A lonely woman refIects on her failed marriage and the si[...]
The lonely cast of outcasts in "The Next Time You See Me" has enough heartache for a whole jukebox full of country songs. Holly Goddard Jones spins a tight if heartbreaking tale, always keeping the reader leaning forward. Stewart O Nan, author of "Songs for the Missing"In "The Next Time You See Me,"[...]
A brilliantly nuanced, psychologically astute debut that explores the fault-lines of a small community - their hidden desires and their other, secret selves.[...]