To Jones by Shannon Brazil

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To Jones
by Shannon Brazil
Publication Date: March 19, 2027
Trade Paper; 382 pages; 5-1/4" x 8"
ISBN 978-1-938753-53-4
NOVEL

DESCRIPTION

Sex-starved wife and overwhelmed mother, Joanna O’Malley, a.k.a. Jones, sets out on a solo road trip with a one-time hall pass to have sex outside of her marriage. From Portland, through the spectacular Oregon Outback, to Black Rock City, Nevada, the largest temporary art community in the world, comes a story of personal revolution, aftermath, and the long-term dynamics that can keep a couple together or tear them apart.

To Jones is a love song wrapped in a reckoning; an exploration of expectation versus reality, sacrifice versus compromise, anger versus compassion, and suffocation versus resuscitation. It is about everyday people coming to terms with who they are to one another and choosing whether it is better to live by societal constructs or redefine the terms of their marriage. One size does not fit all.

PRAISE

“Move over, Miranda July. Shannon Brazil has occupied the territory called being a wife and mother and staged a breakout. This is the story of an unstoppable wandering heart that breaks down the walls that keep us quiet and small so that a woman can resuscitate a self. A burning burst of life force. An invitation to sing. To Jones is for every person who found they couldn’t fit inside the story laid out for them. Maybe loving our children means expanding the story of who we might become. This novel will occupy your body and ask you how you want to change your life.”

—Lidia Yuknavitch, author of The Chronology of Water and Reading the Waves

“To Jones captures completely the way marriage works and love works and the bonds we have with our children. All of it, all of it.” 

—Karen Karbo, author of In Praise of Difficult Women and Yeah, No. Not Happening.

“How do you keep the animal in you alive? How do you stay hungry and horny even as the walls of mid-life close in? In this raunchy, wild, hilarious novel of sex and becoming, Shannon Brazil unleashes a middle-aged mother of three on an erotic pilgrimage to Burning Man. Will her fantasies come true? Yes, they will. But even as her world opens, she discovers that the gravity of her duties and compromises back home never fades. With boundless invention and constant, earthy wit, Brazil has fabricated a quest that goes beyond sex, though never around it, into something like wonder and hard wisdom.”

—Jon Raymond, author of Livability: Stories and God and Sex: A Novel