With three previous novels, Joshilyn Jackson emerged as one of the talented new voices in Southern fiction. Her debut - gods in Alabama - won the Southern Independent Booksellers Alliance 2005 Novel of the Year Award. Her second - Between, Georgia - saw Jackson named Georgia Author of the Year. Then came 2009’s The Girl Who Stopped Swimming, which was shortlisted for the Townsend Prize for Fiction. Who knows what awards her new novel will garner, but it certainly caught the attention of KMUW book critic Sarah Bagby.
You can hear Sarah Bagby's book reviews the second and fourth Mondays of every month on Morning Edition or listen and find additional information about the books and authors reviewed here.
Majority Owner, Sarah Bagby, has over 25 years of experience at Watermark Books. This year Sarah was appointed to the Board of Directors for the American Book Association, and is currently serving in the first of a three year term. She is a member of the Midwest Booksellers Association, which serves a 10-state region, and recently served as president of the association. She also is on the Advisory Council of VOICE, an imprint of Hyperion Publishing. She is very active in the community, participates in several literary associations, and was selected to participate in Leadership Wichita.
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