![]() ![]() with a truck driver-turned-savior Mama Jones and the gruff nightclub owner, Nicky-easily the most enjoyable member of the cast of characters. Equally touching are the meaningful relationships she forms in L.A. The verbal and physical abuse from Davie’s mother and the school bullying Davie is subjected to are potent and well rendered. The more frivolous scenes are offset by some surprisingly sober moments. ![]() Veronica reappears and threatens the careful, delicate façade Davie has built for herself since high school. ![]() Years later, James and the now successful, charming and vocal Davie cross paths again, and this time, James falls madly in love with her, though the author seems better at describing their steamy sex life than their emotional connection. When his sister, the cartoonishly evil Veronica, finds out, she pulls a prank that proves to be the last straw for Davie, who packs up and runs away. When the rich Farell family comes to town, Davie falls in love with the Farell heir, James. Beaten into literal silence by her prostitute mother, Davie becomes the invisible girl. ![]() Glamorous Los Angeles lounge singer Davie Jones grew up Davidia Jones in a poor, abusive, fatherless family in small-town Mississippi. A debut tragicomic romance about a woman’s dark past catching up to her. ![]()
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