The Girl Who Stopped Swimming
Author: Joshilyn Jackson
Laurel Gray Hawthorne needs to make things pretty. Coming from a family with a literal skeleton in their closet, she’s developed this talent all her life, whether helping her willful mother to smooth over the reality of her family’s ugly past, or elevating humble scraps of unwanted fabric into nationally acclaimed art quilts.,,Her sister Thalia, an impoverished “Actress” wi….Read More
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