INTRODUCING....
Author Janet Jenson
and her soon to be release, latest book Gabriel's Daughters!!!!
First up, a little about this amazing 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.
Now...
here is what this fabulous book is all about!
An impressive work of literary fiction that accurately
explores the struggles of being raised in a polygamous community. Jensen’s novel
explores the unique strengths and weaknesses of the bonds in a polygamous
family.
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.
Think you are ready to see the awesomeness that is going to grace the front
of this exciting new book!?!?
Well, we won't keep you in suspense an longer!
Voila!
Amazing, right!?! Pre-order your copy right now!
Book will release January 20, 2015
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