Just Julie's Fine - Couverture souple

Jepson, Theric

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1948218968 ISBN 13 : 9781948218962

Editeur : By Common Consent Press, 2023

Synopsis

Meet Julie:

To know her is to love her. The only bad things to have happened to her are too many good things. When she walks down the street, birds call her name and the sun smiles more broadly.

I do not know how you will stand her.

**

Hilarious, subversive, reflective, and poignant, this novel is a revolving portrait that perfectly captures the BYU single experience and the internal and external tensions faced by Latter-day Saint women.

–Katherine Cowley, award-winning LDS author

Reading this book is like catching an affectionate wink from the guy who sits on the back row in Gospel Doctrine class smiling to himself as he does crossword puzzles on his phone so that you think he’s not listening but who always comes out with the comment that turns the discussion into something bigger, something that matters.

Jepson treats his characters—these glorious, quirky, hilarious young people trying to figure out their places in the world, trying to understand their own hearts—with humor, yes, but also with a subtle tenderness, so that we recognize their yearnings.

This book is as fun as a pick-up game of Pictionary, but just when you think it’s all Peanut M&Ms and Twizzlers, holiness appears as if on a silver tray passed by the deacons.

The ending sneaks up on you like your home teacher (minister) on a unicycle bearing mint brownies, and, like him, is sweet and surprisingly healing.

The sunset our Classic Protagonist rides off into is a different sunset than she had thought she was aiming for, a better sunset, and that makes all the difference. It makes this book true.

—Darlene Young, author of Here


Just Julie’s Fine is a cavalcade of quirky characters, a promenade of “peculiar people.” And though the story is ostensibly about the title character, each individual in this book is a well-rounded person in their own right. Some of them I couldn’t help but love, others drove me crazy, but every last one was entertaining. Readers should get their popcorn now, because they won’t want to miss a second of the laughter, tenderness, dating drama, and self-discovery in this delightful little book.

—Jeanine Bee, fiction editor at Wayfare

What if Barbie went to BYU? What if Elle Woods had majored in Marriage, Family, and Human Development instead of Fashion Merchandising? The arc of Julie Them's sophomore-year quest for self-knowledge is just as satisfying, and it's always a blast to spend time with characters in Jepson's Thuniverse.

—Luisa Perkins, author of Prayers in Bath


Molly Mormon, Patty Perfect—they pale in comparison to Just Julie, the unlikely protagonist of Just Julie’s Fine. A wizard at lampooning stereotypes, Theric Jepson introduces us to a panoply of BYU students, both endearing and annoying. The references range from Shakespeare to Star Trek, the settings from Costco to Rootbeeragogo. The author clearly had a lot of fun writing this playful novel, and the reader should have a lot of fun reading it—and determining if it passes the Bechdel test!

—Karen Rosenbaum, AML Award-winning author

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: By Common Consent Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1948218968
• ISBN 13: 9781948218962
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 190
• Coordonnées du fabricant: Manufactured by Amazon on behalf of the author; https://www.amazon.fr/hz/contact-us; ; c/o Amazon Media EU S.à.r.l., 38 Avenue John F. Kennedy; Luxembourg; L-1855; Luxembourg