Where you here when we revealed this fabulous cover!?! It's going to be releasing soon so we are taking it on a tour! Lots of fun snippets, and wonderful info about the author are coming your way!!
About the Author
Janet Jensen leads a quiet life in a college town nestled in the foothills of the northern edge of the Wasatch Mountains. She and her husband Miles, an attorney, met as members of Utah State University’s Intercollegiate Debate Team and are parents of three grown sons: a soccer enthusiast/physician in Salt Lake City, Utah; an exercise physiologist/football coach/graduate student in Jyvaskyla, Finland; and a skydiver/embedded systems engineer in Berkeley, California. The Jensens have happily become grandparents of four.Janet is co-author of a literature-based cookbook, The Book Lover’s Cookbook: Recipes Inspired by Great Works of Literature and the Passages that Feature Them (Wenger & Jensen, Ballantine, 2003), and an award-winning novel, Don’t You Marry the Mormon Boys (Bonneville Books, 2007), which won a gold medal for Cultural Fiction in the Readers Favorite International Book Awards Contest.
Her work also appears in Parables for Today (Cedar Fort, 2012) and Gruff Variations (Writing for Charity, 2012). Baking Day, a personal essay, placed second in the 2011 national essay/memoir contest sponsored by The Writer Magazine and Gotham Writers Workshops.
Janet holds degrees in Speech-Language Pathology from Utah State University and Northwestern University and worked in educational settings for more than twenty years.
A retired soccer mom, Cub Scout leader and PTA president, she is a now a full-time writer and a literacy tutor who feels genuine panic when she is stranded without something to read. Janet welcomes correspondence with readers. She can be reached at janetkayjensen@gmail.com and on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/JanetKayJensenAuthor?fref=ts. She maintains a website at her website at www.janetjensen.com, and an author page at GoodReads. She tweets as JanetKJensen and blogs at www.janetkayjensen.blogspot.com.
RELEASES February 10!
Pre-order Link: http://amzn.com/1939967198
Book Blurb:
Gabriel's Daughters wrestles with issues of polygamy,
homosexuality, and modernity through the
lives of the large, loving, and
polygamous Martin family. The story is told primarily through the eyes of Zina
Martin, a young girl who, upon discovering she is impregnated by her
"sterile" teacher—and will soon be married off to a man three times
her age— escapes the enclosed polygamous town of Gabriel's Landing, Utah.
Zina then embarks on a journey full of self-discovery, yet
she can never completely escape the longing she has for her family and even the
controversial and outdated lifestyle she once lived. Through both tears and
triumph, Jensen has crafted a moving story that not only acts as insightful
social commentary but also prompts readers to reevaluate their lives.
Snippet Chain!!! (I love these!!!)
Snippet #8
Cyrus was known as a studious and solemn person, upright
and obedient to the Principle. He performed many acts of generosity that few
people knew about; boxes of potatoes, carrots and apples, and clothes that just
happened to fit the children of a particular family would often appear on
doorsteps of households in need. Cyrus was Joshua’s
oldest friend, and Zina suspected that her father sometimes shared his own
worries with Cyrus instead of burdening his wives.
Before
these unannounced visits, her mother would suggest that Zina change her dress
and “freshen up.” The sister wives would exchange
knowing looks they thought she didn’t notice, but one night Zina realized
with a start what was happening. Cyrus Hamilton was asking her father if he
could court her. Courtship in Gabriel’s Landing was not a time for dating,
to become acquainted and decide if a couple loved each other or were even
compatible; it was a mere formality consisting of a few awkward, supervised
visits between the man and his prospective bride before the inevitable arranged
marriage.
To
Zina, Cyrus was a loyal family friend; an “honorary uncle,” he sometimes called himself in jest,
and she could not think of him in any other way. No matter how kind and good
and wise Cyrus was, Zina knew she could not marry him. She could not share his
bed and the duties that went with it.
One
day after school, Joshua called her into his study and Zina was certain he
would tell her of her upcoming courtship and marriage to Cyrus. She could not
summon the courage to look into her father’s eyes. Her heart pounded and she felt
a thin trickle of sweat between her shoulder blades. She knew Joshua was
searching her face, which she would not turn upward, lest he guess her true
feelings from her expression.
Excerpted
from GABRIEL’S DAUGHTERS by JANET KAY JENSEN. Copyright © 2015 by JANET KAY
JENSEN. Excerpted by permission of JOLLY FISH PRESS, LLC. All
rights reserved. No part of this excerpt may be reproduced or reprinted
without permission in writing from the publisher.
Fabulous!!! I asked Author Janet Jensen for her main character casting, but instead she gave me something even better!!! Check these out!
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