| | Welcome to the internet home of national best-selling author, Janna McMahan.
Janna recently completed book tour for The Ocean Inside, a family drama that spans beaches from South Carolina's Lowcountry to Cancun. The Myrtle Beach Sun News writes, "Readers would be hard-pressed to discern that Janna McMahan is not a native South Carolinian. She writes about the region as if she spent years getting to know its people, walking its shores and discovering its cultural and historical treasures." Publisher's Weekly calls The Ocean Inside, "Vividly drawn." Booklist writes, "McMahan's second novel is an easily accessible exploration of what can stretch the average upper-middle-class family to just shy of the breaking point. The story is gripping and the characters all too real." Janna's novella Decorations, part of the holiday story collection Snow Angels, is now available. Snow Angels was selected for the bestseller lists of Publisher's Weekly, USA Today and The New York Times.
Look for Janna's new novel in early 2011. |
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"A gripping American family portrait." Life changes in an instant. One day, Laruen and Emmett Sullivan's biggest worries revolve around the escalating taxes on their gorgeous Victorian beach house on Pawleys Island, South Carolina. The next, they're facing a devastating crisis. The couple has always been a team, working together to raise their daughters in this beautiful, tranquil spot on the edge of the Deep South. Now, with all their attention focused on nine-year-old Ainslie, they barely notice as their older daughter, Sloan, drifts away from them toward a reckless path that could tear the family apart.
Deeply evocative and beautifully rendered, The Ocean Inside explores what it mean to hope, to love and to fight for what matters most, even in the face of overwhelming odds. This powerful second novel from the acclaimed author of Calling Home is about the bonds between husband and wife, parents and children, and about the strength that lies within us, waiting to be tested. |
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Target's "Need to Read" selection, April 2008 Nothing much even happens in Falling Rock. So when Virignia Lemmons' husband takes off with the strange new woman in town, there's not much to do but what people in rural Kentucky have always done--get on with it. Now, overwhelmed and unsure, Virginia's got her hands full trying to keep it togeher, body and soul, while raising her two teenagers--eighteen-year-old Will and her spirited fourteen-year-old, Shannon.
But Shannon has her own ideas for breaking free of Falling Rock and in her reckless, wild-child daughter, Virginia sees echoes of her own painful past. Virginia will do whatever it takes to keep her daughter from making the same tragic mistakes she made. Suddenly, saving what's left of her fragile family is the biggest fight of Virginia's life.
In this compelling, heartbreaking first novel, Janna McMahan brings to life the dreams, passions and troubles of one Southern town, where choice isn't always easy to come by, and living the hand you're dealt is a grace all its own. |
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