Misfigures

By Catherine Olivier

This coming of age novel from emerging author Catherine Olivier describes life in the small town of Blairsville, Georgia from the perspective of three young women, each struggling to bring excitement to their lives in this monotonous town. Enthralling for teens, young adults, and anyone with a youthful heart, Misfigures guides the reader through a story of friendship, destruction, community, and longing. A drunk, a thief, and a vandal forge unlikely friendships that propel them through their small-town lives.Chloe is the homegrown southern belle who brings pep, charm, and grace to Blairsville.Martha is the dark, boisterous rebel, secretly encaptured by everyday beauty.Kaylee is the unobtrusive golf prodigy, observing those around her and quietly remarking on the human condition."And this is Blairsville, the Ritz families and the Ritz-Cracker families squeezed into this tiny town, the Teslas and tractors residing in conjoined garages, the estate homes and the state homes separated not by miles but by minutes-- the book club moms and the gardening club moms and the quite literal stay-at-home moms, the moms with their snot-nosed kids and their Yale prospects and their D1 athletes and their janitors-- the totality of the Georgia weather but with the unpredictability of Texas, the streamlined rivers and lakes, the picture perfect trees of summer and whiteout trees of winter and bare branches of fall-- the peach tea they say is year-round but is only decent in spring and summer, the mason jars full of the stuff when no local dare request it at a restaurant. This is Blairsville, the 30512 voting district and not one knowledgeable partisan member, the election lawn signs from 2012 and the athletics lawn signs from the graduating class of 2008 and the petition lawn signs from 2005. The wind that only blows in the south side and the leaves that only grow in the north, the seeming smell of rosemary year-round and the mirage of wild horses only in May-- the public school, the old pier on the lake, the cracked concrete streets, the soccer moms, the soccer dads, the Sunday hats, the town hall lights, the periwinkle sky-- this is Blairsville."

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1973479524
• ISBN13: 9781973479529
• Release Date: December 2017
• Publisher: Independently published
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 0.53 lbs.
• Dimensions: 8.0" x 0.4" x 5.0"