Backseat Saints

A General Fiction Novel by Joshilyn Jackson

Subgenres:

Southern Fiction,
Domestic Fiction,
Mother-Daughter Fiction

Published 2010

Length 362 pages

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Fierce Southern women reclaiming their past and power
Stories where a pistol and a dog are survival essentials
Mother-daughter quests that get messy and raw

Publisher Description

Rose Mae Lolley's mother disappeared when she was eight, leaving Rose with a heap of old novels and a taste for dangerous men. Now, as demure Mrs. Ro Grandee, she's living the very life her mother abandoned. She's all but forgotten the girl she used to be—teenaged spitfire, Alabama heartbreaker, and a crack shot with a pistol—until an airport gypsy warns Rose it's time to find her way back to that brave, tough girl . . . or else.

Armed with only her wit, her pawpy's ancient .45, and her dog Fat Gretel, Rose Mae hightails it out of Texas, running from a man who will never let her go, on a mission to find the mother who did.

Starring a minor character from Jackson's bestselling Gods in Alabama, Backseat Saints portrays the measures a mother will take to right the wrongs she's created, and how far a daughter will travel to satisfy the demands of forgiveness.

with Joshilyn Jackson

“ I call (my writing), “Weirdo Fiction with a Shot of Southern Gothic Influence for Smart People Who Can Catch the Nuances but Who Like Narrative Drive, and Who Have a Sense of Humor but Who Are Willing to Go Down to Dark Places.” ”