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Jennie Shortridge: When She Flew
Celebrate Jennie Shortridge's latest novel at her neighborhood bookstore!
When She Flew is a stunning novel inspired by the true-life storyof a young girl and her father living in the wilderness together.
Join us for a reading, signing and reception celebrating Jennie Shortridge, one of our favorite authors and neighbors!
"...A taut, beautifully rendered novel... all the
urgency of a thriller and... a moving exploration of parental love and
the lengths to which one person will go to take care of another."
—Marisa de los Santos, New York Times bestselling author of Love Walked In and Belong to Me
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When She Flew (Paperback)
Availability: Readily Available
Published: NAL Trade, 11/01/2009
Available 11/3/09
When She Flew, Jennie's fourth novel, is the fictionalization of true events, and
after much research, she let her imagination run wild to create this
evocative story of an Iraq war vet raising his daughter in the wild and
the single mom/policewoman who breaks all the rules when ordered to
separate them, risking everything to help them escape. This story
explores the issues of raising children in today's world, living within
the system as opposed to rejecting it, the toll of war on families, and
introduces a young heroine raised in the forest who thrives through the
worst of circumstances.
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