Title:
Mandatory
Release
Author: Jess
Riley
Release
date: July
16, 2013
Age
Group: Adult
Genre:
Dude
Lit / Edgy Women’s Fiction
Book
Description:
With appeal for fans of
Jonathan Tropper, Tom Perrotta, and Laurie Notaro, this snarky mashup of Girls
and Oz is so painfully honest you might think you’re reading a memoir—except
the author isn’t a smart-ass guy in a wheelchair who works in a prison.
Recently paralyzed in a car accident, thirty-year-old Graham
Finch spends his days trying to rehabilitate a caseload of unruly inmates and
his nights on one bad date after another, attempting to rehabilitate his heart—
—until his high school crush Drew Daniels walks through the prison
gates one hot summer morning. On the run from a painful past that’s nearly
crushed her faith in love, Drew is a new teacher at Lakeside Correctional.
Graham, smitten all over again, tries to redirect his unrequited feelings.
But when your heart keeps looking back, it's not easy to turn it forward.
Amidst escalating violence at work, Drew is forced to
confront her secrets, find a way to forgive old sins, and learn how to listen
to her heart and her head when it
comes to men. Graham must also learn to make peace with his own past. Together
they realize that if you’re going to save yourself, sometimes the best way to
do it is by saving someone else first. If only finding their way to one another
was easier than working with convicted felons.
Loaded with twisted humor and pathos, Mandatory
Release is a darkly comic, unexpectedly sexy love story about broken
people putting themselves back together. People who learn that no matter what
you lock up—a person, a secret, or your heart—sooner or later, everything must
be released.
FIVE FACTS ABOUT MANDATORY RELEASE
PART I
By Jess Riley
·
MR
was loosely inspired by my own experiences teaching in a medium-security men’s
prison to help put myself through college. (It wasn’t nearly as scary as it
sounds…)
·
Drew
Daniels, 30, has reluctantly returned home to heal after a brutal end to her
last relationship; she gets a job teaching in the same prison in which her
mother works.
·
Graham
Finch went to high school with Drew, and is happy and surprised to see his
former HS crush back in town. Even better, now they work together. (But if she didn’t like him as more than a
friend before his accident, why on earth would she feel that way for him now?)
·
Joe
Simon is 22 and has made it his mission to add Drew’s name to the notches on
his bedpost. A guard at the prison, he’s also healing from his own wounds.
·
Graham
tries to distract himself from jealousy over Joe and Drew’s drama with a new
relationship, but his heart just isn’t in it.
About
the Author
Jess Riley’s experiences teaching in a
medium-security prison inspired the novel Mandatory Release. Her debut novel (Driving
Sideways, now in its fourth printing) was published by Random House in
2008. She lives in Oshkosh, Wisconsin with her husband and nutty Cairn Terrier
in a 130-year-old money pit farmhouse. When she’s not writing novels,
she’s a Grant Writer for school districts nationwide.
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Links
to the book:
Barnes and Noble - http://www.barnesandnoble.com/w/mandatory-release-jess-riley/1115359762?ean=9781484081877
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