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Joshilyn Jackson

Jackson's latest, WITH MY LITTLE EYE pubs April 25, 2023. Pre-order now!

New York Times and USA today bestselling novelist Joshilyn Jackson is the author of WITH MY LITTLE EYE and nine other books, including NEVER HAVE I EVER, MOTHER MAY I, and THE ALMOST SISTERS. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages, won SIBA’s novel of the year, three times been a #1 Book Sense Pick, been the Target Book Club Pick, a Barnes and Noble Pick of the Month, and the Sunday Times Thriller fo the Month. A former actor, Jackson reads the audio versions of her novels; her work in this field has been nominated for the Audie Award, was selected by AudioFile Magazine for their best of the year list, and garnered two Listen Up Awards from Publisher’s Weekly.

She lives in Decatur, Georgia with her family.


“Hail to thee Alabama, you verdant trollop.”
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“A pretty woman is a Christmas tree,' my mother told me in the airport. This fella is hanging things on my branches as his gaze sweeps from my face all the way down my body to my hips and then back to my face. Ideas fly from his widened eyes and land on me like teeny, decorative burdens. He is giving me shyness, maybe, some book smarts, and a certain yielding sweetness in bed. The oil-slick eyes get me, and I find myself hanging a few ornaments myself, giving him deft hands and a sense of humor.”
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“I would take today's joy, and tomorrow's. I would take it with both hands, anywhere it came.”
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“It was more like when I was little and used to run everywhere for the sheer fun of fast moving.”
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“This is what Liza knows: People go under. They fall off the world, they go beneath and drown and die. Sometimes, nothing saves you…Liza knows how black the world is, how fast it spins, and how you have to take the taste of apples and the smell of your little girl’s orange zest shampoo where you find them. You have to hold these things and strive, always, for one more word and one more step. You push forward and you fight, for as long as ever you can, until the black world spins and the moon pulls the tide and the water rises up and takes you.”
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“God gave us crying so other folks could see when we needed help, and help us.”
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“Hail to thee, Alabama, thou verdant trollop!”
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“I'd thought Clarice's smile was both too dim and friendly and too wide and white, so that she looked to me like the love child of a cannibal and a Labrador retriever.”
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“...blind and naked as an unearthed mole, uncomprehending.”
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“I had been born and mostly raised in the South, so I ought to have been able to find a way to reach him. Southern girls are trained from birth up that the way to a man's heart is never through the front door. They may leave a basket of cookies there, and while he's busy picking them up, they're squirming in through a back window.”
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“I step straight toward the female librarian. She looks soft, as if she's been raised in a box and purely milk-fed, like veal.”
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“You're saying things you can't take back. And you don't even mean them.”
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“She had shown Laura that David was less hers than she had ever thought and the pieces of him she did own were being taken.”
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“That was normal. That was regular and real.. It didn't look like a place [she] could get to from here.”
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“Saying it it loud, she felt every inch of distance between them.”
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“sex was where laurel knew she knew him, and talking was the way she called him to her.”
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“I was looking for my ex-lover to break the Sixth Commandment.”
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“I wanted her note to say that I was a red hole dug out of the guts of her, a seeping wound that hadn’t healed a lick in the twenty-odd years since she had left me.”
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“There are gods in Alabama: Jack Daniel's, high school quarterbacks, trucks, big tits, and also Jesus.”
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