TY - BOOK AU - Jackson,Joshilyn TI - A grown-up kind of pretty SN - 145550727X (lg. print) PY - 2012/// CY - New York, N.Y. PB - Grand Central Pub. KW - Mothers and daughters KW - Fiction KW - Mississippi KW - Large type books KW - Humorous fiction KW - gsafd N2 - A saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen-year-old Mosey Slocumb--spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood--is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in the backyard, and determined to figure out why it's there. Liza, her stroke-ravaged mother, is haunted by choices she made as a teenager. But it is Jenny, Mosey's strong and big-hearted grandmother, whose maternal love braids together the strands of the women's shared past--and who will stop at nothing to defend their future ER -