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Book Review of Josie and Jack

Josie and Jack
Josie and Jack
Author: Kelly Braffet
Genre: Literature & Fiction
Book Type: Paperback
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Helpful Score: 1


This is a very disturbing novel, but one you can't put down. Very intense...haunting...strange & wonderful. Beautiful, brilliant, and inseparable, Josie & Jack Raeburn live a secluded, anarchic existance 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, erticism, 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.