https://cms.megaphone.fm/channel/hillcountry This is the view from my living room, where I write fiction about complicated women who eventually figure it out. My novels are set in the twentieth century, in the 60s and 70s.Read More →
https://sarahlynbruck.com/blog-easley/. Debut novelist, Joanne Easley, visits the blog this week to chat about Sweet Jane, which releases this week. Please tell us a little bit about your book. After a broken childhood, Jane runs away at sixteen right on time for the Summer of Love. Seventeen years later, her return for Mama’s funeral catapults her back to the events that made her the woman she is. What sparked the idea for Sweet Jane? The character of Jane came to me at a writing group at a café in Austin, Texas. The writing prompt—she didn’t get that far—conjured an image of a heartbroken teenage girl hitchhikingRead More →
Sweet Jane by Joanne Kukanza Easley By R.C. Gibson / February 10, 2020 Janie Jennings grew up in Odessa, Texas, in the 1960’s. She “believed in truth, justice and the American way, just like Superman.” But growing up poor in a home with an alcoholic mother can change a naive young girl. Add in the accidental death of a neighbor, the betrayal of a close friend, a dramatic suicide and some heartbreak, and you have a completely changed person. Now well into adulthood and long removed from her west Texas roots, Jane travels home for the funeral of her mother. Suppressed emotions well up fromRead More →