Josie and Jack: A Novel (edit title)

Shelfari edited the description of Josie and Jack: A Novel Sunday, August 2 2009.

• In Josie and Jack, Kelly Braffet gives us a deliciously dark, suspenseful debut novel in the tradition of Patricia Highsmith. Beautiful, brilliant, and inseparable, Josie and Jack Raeburn live a secluded, anarchic existence in their decaying western Pennsylvania home. The only adult in their lives is their rage-prone father, a physicist, whose erratic behavior finally drives them away. Without a moral compass to guide them, Jack leads Josie into a menacing world of wealth, eroticism, and betrayal. His sociopathic tendencies emerge, and soon Josie must decide which is stronger: the love and devotion she feels for her brother or her will to survive. From its opening page to its shocking climax, this contemporary Hansel and Gretel story is compulsively readable and hugely entertaining.

Bookworm edited the quotations of Josie and Jack: A Novel Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Edited a quotation: “"HumanityHumanity will not survive as a collective unit, Josephine. It is too deeply infected with stupidity. The only way to survive is to isolate yourself from the diseased cells. Move away from them as soon as possible. Remember that."that. Raeburn”

Bookworm edited the quotations of Josie and Jack: A Novel Saturday, July 25 2009.

• Added a quotation: “"Humanity will not survive as a collective unit, Josephine. It is too deeply infected with stupidity. The only way to survive is to isolate yourself from the diseased cells. Move away from them as soon as possible. Remember that." Raeburn”

Shelfari edited the contributors of Josie and Jack: A Novel Wednesday, July 22 2009.

• Added a contributor: Kelly Braffet: (Primary Author)

Shelfari edited the first sentence of Josie and Jack: A Novel Friday, July 17 2009.

• THE WORST HANGOVERS come on the sunniest days.