It's Okay to Cry

By Janice Daugharty

Bethann, a struggling college student, decides to take care of Holly, her evil, manipulative younger sister after their grandmother, who raised them, dies. But Holly is a mess. And en route to Miami after the funeral, Bethann lays down the rules to Holly, while mentally trying to understand what makes Holly tick. If Bethann can figure her out she can fix her. So she thinks.

• Language: English
• Publisher: Janice Daugharty
• Release date: Jul 7, 2010
• ISBN: 9781452337487

Janice Daugharty

Janice Daugharty is Artist-in-Residence at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College, in Tifton, Georgia. She is the author of one story collection and five novels: Dark of the Moon, Necessary Lies, Pawpaw Patch, Earl in the Yellow Shirt, and Whistle.

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It's Okay to Cry

by Janice Daugharty

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Copyright 2010 Janice Daugharty

Even working in microcosm, Janice Daugharty is a writer who thinks big—New York Times Book Review, Going Through the Change, 1995

Allowing for thirty minutes of unfelt hugs at the graveside of the grandmother who raised them, Bethann will be on her way fromSouth Georgia to South Florida with Holly--nineteen, but an adolescent mess--and already in her mind she is turning around and taking back her offer to re-raise her sister.

Passing before the casket at the flower-banked altar of the little rural church, Bethann slips her left arm around Holly and she presses all two-hundred-plus pounds of damp flesh into Bethann and moans.

Bethann feels her own face flush, a raw surge of sorrow in her chest, tears misting her brown eyes. But Holly's broad face remains pale