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Julia Franks

  Publishers Weekly Starred Review,  Boston Globe ’s Top Summer Reads,  Library Journa l’s Audiofiles Magazine Earphones Award Thomas Wolfe Award, Southern Book Prize, Georgia Author of the Year, IPPY Gold, and the Townsend Prize for Best Georgia Fiction "Edie Carrigan didn’t plan to “get herself” pregnant, much less end up in a home for unwed mothers. In 1950s North Carolina, illegitimate pregnancy is kept secret, wayward women require psychiatric cures, and adoption is always the best solution. Not even Edie’s closest friend, Luce Waddell, understands what Edie truly wants: to keep and raise the baby."  What can I say about Julia Franks? Well, the first thing that comes to mind is that she astonishes me. When I first read Over the Plain Houses, I was totally hooked. I often have to stop, put down her books, and realize I am living her story, her characters' stories: the details of what the character sees as she enters a room, what she feels as she is talking or liste

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