Lydia Netzer and Abbott Kahler, Group is like delicious medication. Sara Gruen, make me a tiny book of this! Alison Law, you are invaluable. My local writer posse helped ferment this book and I love them: Anna Schachner, Reid Jensen, Ginger Eager, and Dr. Jake Myers.

I love you, Scott. I love you, Sam and Maisy Jane. I love you, family: Betty (and Bob, always), Bobby, Julie, Daniel, Claire, Eleanor Rose (our new, tiny Jackson, already clearly a prodigy!), Erin Virginia, and Julian (also new, also a prodigy, but much larger), and Jane, and Allison.

My Jesus people keep me breathing. I love you, New Revised Standard Dinner Club (Brownings and Garbers and Myers, oh my), and First Baptist Church of Decatur, especially the Beloved Community of STK. I love you always, Slanted Sidewalk, small group, and the popular girls (looking at you, Julie and Amy) who fundamentally shaped me and my writing.

Love and gratitude to the students and board members and teachers and volunteers and employees who together make Reforming Arts. Our voices matter.

About the Author

JOSHILYN JACKSON is the New York Times and USA Today bestselling author of nine other novels, including Never Have I Ever and gods in Alabama. Her books have been translated into more than a dozen languages. A former actor, Jackson is also an award-winning audiobook narrator. She lives in Decatur, Georgia, with her family.

Website: JoshilynJackson.com

Facebook: facebook.com/JoshilynJackson

Twitter: @JoshilynJackson

Instagram: @joshilyn_jackson

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Also by Joshilyn Jackson

• Never Have I Ever
• The Almost Sisters
• The Opposite of Everyone
• Someone Else’s Love Story
• A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty
• Backseat Saints
• The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
• Between, Georgia
• gods in Alabama

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• “My Own Miraculous”

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