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    Josie and Jack: A Novel
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    Josie and Jack: A Novel

    By Kelly Braffet

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    From the author of Save Yourself, this dark, suspenseful tale of the twisted relationship between a brother and sister is “wicked fun” (Los Angeles Times).
     
    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 and frequent absences leave them isolated and dependent on each other for companionship.
     
    Without a moral compass to guide them, Jack leads Josie into a menacing world of wealth, eroticism, and betrayal. He encourages her to seduce a local boy for his own ulterior motives—but reacts with fury when a bond grows between the two. As the two venture out into the wider world and Jack’s sociopathic tendencies emerge, 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 a “sharp portrait of an asphyxiating love and a legacy of madness . . . Darkly gothic and supremely readable” (Publishers Weekly).
     
    “Packs a powerful punch . . . Readers won’t soon forget the chilling, unexpected ending.” —Booklist
     
    “Deliciously intense . . . One of the most haunting novels I’ve read in years.” —Lauren Grodstein, author of A Friend of the Family
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJun 5, 2012
    ISBN9780544052871
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    Josie and Jack: A Novel
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    Kelly Braffet

    Kelly Braffet is the author of the novels Save Yourself, Josie and Jack and Last Seen Leaving, and The Unwilling. Her writing has been published in the New York Times and Vulture.com, as well as The Fairy Tale Review, Post Road, and several anthologies. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University and currently lives in upstate New York.

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