On top of the loss and the culture shock of moving from urban California to rural Minnesota, she soon discovers that something very dark is happening in Litani, something the locals refer to as The Game. She’s forced to move to a strange town to live with a mother she barely knows. She’s unexpectedly lost her father, the man who’s been raising her for years. Your protagonist Frankie Jubilee relocates from Pasadena to rural Minnesota at age 14 following the death of her father. Jess took time out from her busy launch schedule recently to speak with me about the emotional landscape of teenage life, our shared interest in Minnesota, and her knack for building menace into scenes. When a bullying gang of girls invites Frankie to The Game, she accepts, determined to find out what’s really going on in paranoia-prone Litani. From the start, Frankie senses something uneasy going on in the small town. In the summer of 1984, fourteen-year-old Frankie Jubilee, the protagonist of this gripping story, is shuttled off to Litani, Minnesota, to live with her estranged mother, a county prosecutor she barely knows. Litani, the newest release from acclaimed crime novelist Jess Lourey, explores the darkness at the heart of the rural Midwest in a novel inspired by a chilling true crime.
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