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Shimmering with rage and sparkling with subtle humor Billie Starrs Book of Sorries showcases Edgar Awardnominee Deborah E Kennedys singular voice as Jenny a heroine in the vein of Olive Kitteridge in Crosby Maine and Miles Roby in Empire Falls shines a light on the town of Benson Indiana where lakes grudges and family rifts run deep but so does a mothers love

Sometimes a woman has to rescue herself

Jenny Newberg Queen of Bad Decisions is about to make another one In a small town where everyone knows everyones business downonherluck single mother Jenny is on a firstname basis with the debt collector at the bank who is moving toward foreclosure She is constantly apologizing to her precocious young daughter Billie Starr who is filling a book with her mothers sorries and it seems to Jenny that no apology will ever be enough

Then a pair of strangers in black suits offers her a hefty check to seduce someone known as the Candidate Finally something will go her way

But nothing ever goes as Jenny plans and she is swept into the Candidates orbit Surrounded by a wide universe of new ideas she realizes how constrained her life has been by the expectations of everyone around her and she starts to see how much more she might be capable of And when her world is rocked to its core and Billie Starr may be in danger Jenny is forced to do what she once thought impossible trust in herself and her own power to make things right

A Macmillan Audio production from Flatiron Books