THRILLINGLY DANGEROUS, WORRYINGLY LIKEABLE: SOME SIBLINGS ARE BETTER KEPT APART - NOW A FILM, DIRECTED BY SARAH LANCASTER

Beautiful, brilliant, and inseparable, Josie and Jack Raeburn live a secluded, anarchic existence in their decaying western Pennsylvania home. The only adult in their lives is their rage-prone father, a physicist, whose erratic behavior finally drives them away. Without a moral compass to guide them, Jack leads Josie into a menacing world of wealth, eroticism, and betrayal. His sociopathic tendencies emerge, and soon Josie must decide which is stronger: the love and devotion she feels for her brother or her will to survive.

From its opening page to its shocking climax, this contemporary Hansel and Gretel story is compulsively readable and hugely entertaining.

Author: Kelly Braffet
Binding Type: Paperback
Publisher: William Morrow & Company
Published: 02/04/2005
Pages: 241
Weight: 0.59lbs
Size: 8.36h x 5.46w x 0.61d
ISBN: 9780618441433


Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/15/2004 pg. 48
Booklist 11/15/2004 pg. 551
Kirkus Reviews 12/15/2004 pg. 1153
Publishers Weekly 12/20/2004 pg. 36
Ingram Advance 02/01/2005 pg. 45
Library Journal 01/15/2005 pg. 93
Entertainment Weekly 02/04/2005 pg. 139
Library Journal 10/15/2004
Library Journal 01/01/2005
New York Times 02/27/2005 pg. 17

About the Author
Braffet, Kelly: - Kelly Braffet is the author of the novels Save Yourself, Josie and Jack and Last Seen Leaving, and The Unwilling. Her writing has been published in the New York Times and Vulture.com, as well as The Fairy Tale Review, Post Road, and several anthologies. She attended Sarah Lawrence College and Columbia University and currently lives in upstate New York.