Book Giveaway: Girls in Trucks
I'm authorized to give away 3 copies. Rules for entry in the drawing are below. Please read them carefully.
Girls in Trucks
By Katie Crouch
(c) 2009
Pub. Back Bay Books
272p.
Sarah Walters, the narrator of GIRLS IN TRUCKS, is a reluctant Camellia Society debutante. She has always felt ill-fitted to the rococo ways of Southern womanhood and family, and is anxious to shake the bonds of her youth. Still, she follows the traditional path laid out for her. This is Charleston, and in this beautiful, dark, segregated town, established rules and manners mean everything.
But as Sarah grows older, she finds that her Camellia lessons fail her, particularly as she goes to college, moves North, and navigates love and life in New York. There, Sarah and her group of displaced deb sisters try to define themselves within the realities of modern life. Heartbreak, addiction, disappointing jobs and death fail to live up to the hazy, happy future promised to them by their Camellia mothers and sisters.
When some unexpected bumps in the road--an unplanned birth, a family death--lead Sarah back home, she's forced to take another long look at the fading empire of her youth. It takes a strange turn of events to finally ground Sarah enough to make some serious choices. And only then does she realize that as much as she tried to deny it, where she comes from will always affect where she ends up. The motto of her girlhood cotillion society, "Once a Camellia, always a Camellia," may turn out to have more wisdom and pull to it than she ever could have guessed.
As a writer of fiction myself I'm very intrigued by what Kate Crouch has to say about character creation in this essay.
Rules:
- Leave a comment in this post expressing your interest in entering the drawing.
- Provide an @ by which I can contact you in case of a win. Either in your comment or in an email to me at joystory AT gmail DOT com If you email your @ be sure to connect it to your entry. If I do not receive an @ your entry will be disqualified.
- If, in the case of a win, you would like me link to your blog in the winners announcement post, provide your URL in your comment or via email. This is not a requirement for entering nor do you have to have a blog yourself in order to enter.
- If you blog about this giveaway, send me a link to the post and your name will be entered a second time.
- Deadline for entering is NOON PST April 4, 2009. I will select the winners with a random number generator using www.random.org
- Winners must provide a US or Canadian mailing address. Hachette is unable to deliver to PO Boxes.
26 tell me a story:
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Vanessa
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This is a book that even my eighteen year old daughter expressed interest in, so I'd love to win it for her.
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This sounds like a wonderful read!
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I would love to be entered for this drawing. Thanks! Indigo
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This one sounds so good.
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Aww this sounds like a sad book. I'm interested in reading it mainly for that reason.
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I'd love a chance to read this book, thanks!
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Debbie
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Seems like a great writer, I would love to read her work!
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I'd love to read this -- thank you for the chance to win a copy!
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I'd love to read this!
Thanks for setting up a give away
Lucy
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Ooo, please enter me! I've been wanting to read this one for a while. Would love to win a copy.
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Would love to win.
But has no blog.
Elisabet
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I posted about this here: http://booksandneedlepoint.blogspot.com/2009/03/weekly-round-up-of-links-3-29-2009.html
I'd love this.
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