Description

Jeanne Thornton's debut book is just a love story unlike every other, offering Julie Thatch, a difficult-as-nails, chain-smoking, wise-breaking 17-year-old Texan. Her idol, her older sibling, runs headlong in to the lights of an approaching vehicle, and dies. And Julie falls in deep love with a woman who both is and is not an echo of her older sibling, an extended-limbed Francophone named Patrice-who can also be a devotee of the Start of Temporary Illusions, a Church of Scientology-like conspiracy. In Jules Thatch you can't help but observe tones of Stieg Larssonis Lisbeth Salander.