Jaybird’s Song: A Novel

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Pub Date 07 Feb 2017 | Archive Date 16 Jun 2017

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Engrossing family dynamics and pitch-perfect details of a Southern 1960s childhood flutter off the page and into your imagination in Jaybird’s Song by Kathy Wilson Florence. It is the story of Josie Flint, affectionately called “Jaybird” by her imposing father, and her role as the eldest of the three Flint sisters, grand-daughters to honored family matriarch Annie Joe. Surrounding this poignant and evocative coming-of-age story, however, is the turbulent South as Jim Crow laws come to an end in Josie’s home of Atlanta. Her school desegregates and the country meanders through new ideas brought about by the Civil Rights movement, while a personal tragedy breaches Josie’s world and shatters the perfect childhood she treasured.

In Jaybird’s Song, Florence skillfully alternates between these defining moments of Josie’s childhood and 35 years later when her beloved grandmother, Annie Joe, passes away. Revealing a long-kept family secret, a new kind of heartache begins for Josie as she struggles to rise against tragedy with grace with maintaining loyalty to the family she holds so dear. The depth of Florence’s brilliantly crafted, strong female characters continues to surprise and awe the reader throughout, as does her ability to turn the turbulent 1960s South into a character all its own. Modern women will relate to the ladies of Jaybird’s Song of a bygone era as they grapple with sexuality and aggression from the opposite sex in a time before trigger warnings and rape culture awareness.

Engrossing family dynamics and pitch-perfect details of a Southern 1960s childhood flutter off the page and into your imagination in Jaybird’s Song by Kathy Wilson Florence. It is the story of Josie...


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About the Author:

 Kathy Wilson Florence was raised in Atlanta, graduated from Georgia State University, married a native Atlantan, and birthed her two daughters at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta. She is a full-time Realtor with her husband Tom in Dunwoody, Georgia. In her “off hours,” Florence runs her own graphic design, copywriting and marketing business, Right Brain Communications, and writes novels. She was a weekly columnist for the Dunwoody Crier newspaper for 16 years where she penned “Over the Picket Fence.” A collection of favorite columns can be found in her first book, You’ve Got a Wedgie Cha Cha Cha.

About the Author:

Kathy Wilson Florence was raised in Atlanta, graduated from Georgia State University, married a native Atlantan, and birthed her two daughters at Piedmont Hospital in Atlanta. She...


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ISBN 9780998678108
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