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Gods of Alabama

Backseat Saints (2010) (edit title/settings)

by Joshilyn Jackson (Author) (edit contributors)

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Rose Mae Lolley is a fierce and dirty girl, long-suppressed under flowery skirts and bow-trimmed ballet flats. As "Mrs. Ro Grandee" she's trapped in a marriage that's thick with love and sick with abuse. Her true self has been bound in the chains of marital bliss in rural Texas, letting "Ro"... read more

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Rose Mae Lolley was abused by her father and married a man, Thom Grandee, who continued the abuse. She accidentally met her mother, who'd left her behind when she was 8, at the airport as she was dropping off her neighbor. Her mother, under the guise of a gypsy, alluded to the fact that Rose... read more (warning: may contain spoilers)

Rose Mae Lolley was abused by her father and married a man, Thom Grandee, who continued the abuse. She accidentally met her mother, who'd left her behind when she was 8, at the airport as she was dropping off her neighbor. Her mother, under the guise of a gypsy, alluded to the fact that Rose must kill her husband to live. Rose concocted a scheme in her mind to find her high-school boyfirend and end Thom's life. Her high-school boyfriend had disappeared one night while they were still in high school. She tried to track him down but failed. When her husband returned from a business trip with a murderous intent, Rose fled and found her father. He had sobered up and regretted his past acts. He traded cars with Rose and sent her on her way since her hometown wasn't safe for her. She fled to California and found her mother. She later learned that her father had been beaten to death. She assumed the beating was done by Thom. Her mother devised a plan to kill Thom and succeeded by using Rose as bait. She was put in jail for what she'd done. Rose kept her mother's portion of the duplex where she continued to pay it forward and help another battered woman.

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  • “"Every man thinks any woman would be lucky to have him. When it's always the other way around."”
    Georgia
  • “"Ants work their whole lives for the good of the species. They don't need words to speak to each other. They don't mind being one speck among millions---or do they? Maybe they don't realize how tiny they are. Maybe they seem as large to themselves as we seem to us.There are lessons to be learned: One ant doesn't matter much. We are tiny, but we are connected. We all work for the good of the Ant Connection."”
    Georgia
  • “"Women who say size doesn't matter are lying through their clenched, frustrated teeth."”
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  • “"If you have spent thirty-eight years toiling on the anthill, you earned the right not to think about anything you want. Once you get over your youthful self and stop all that blue-sky dreaming, you're freer to settle down and enjoy life."”
    Georgia
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  • “Anyone can stop being anything at any time. All they have to do is choose to.”
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  • Young men, romantics, call it love at first sight, but even then I understood it was only prettiness. Young men see pretty, and they start hanging all the things they hope you’ll be onto you till you’re so weighed down you can’t move.”
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  • But I’m Catholic. It’s a thing I am, not a thing I do. I can’t stop being it.”
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  • “She would of been a good woman,” a character says, “if it had been somebody there to shoot her every minute of her life.”
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  • IT WAS AN AIRPORT gypsy who told me that I had to kill my husband.
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  • We were rare things, southern Catholics, swamped in Baptists and hemmed in by Methodism.
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  • “People can’t stop being Catholic,” I said. “You’re born it. You are it. I’m Catholic, and I’ve been to mass maybe twice in the last three years.”
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  • You will never have to worry about him finding you. You can live. You can live, and be made into someone new.”
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  • “Baby, I’m scared I might blow holes in you later, but look, I made you the naughty eggs.” Last night I’d made sex for him, too, in the same way, buttery slick and fat with all the things he liked best.
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  • Rose Mae Lolley, a girl I’d buried years ago, when I was eight, the year my mother disappeared.
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It was an airport gypsy who told me that I had to kill my husband.

Table of Contents edit see section history

Part 1

A Marriage Made Of Swords (Amarillo, Texas, 1997)

Part 2

The Girl Left In The Tower (Amarillo, Texas, 1997)

Part 3

Hanging Ivy (Berkeley, California, 1997)

Epilogue

God In Alabama (Chapter 1)

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This book is in Gods of Alabama. (standard series)

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  1. Joshilyn Jackson (Author)

First Edition edit see section history

Original Language: English
Publisher: Grand Central Publishing
Country: U.S.A.
Publication Date: June 2010
ISBN: 9780446582346
Page Count: 344

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  • Library of Congress: PS3610.A3525
  • Dewey: 813.6

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Reading Level: Adults

Adult sisuations, language and domestic abuse.

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