Carry Me Home
by Jessica Therrien
Published by: Acorn Publishing
Publication date: September 26th 2017
Genres: Contemporary, Thriller, Young Adult
by Jessica Therrien
Published by: Acorn Publishing
Publication date: September 26th 2017
Genres: Contemporary, Thriller, Young Adult
“A riveting page-turner… Jessica Therrien
broke my heart into a million pieces — and then put it back together again.
This book will haunt and uplift readers long after they turn the last page.”
-KAT ROSS, best-selling author of The Midnight Sea
-KAT ROSS, best-selling author of The Midnight Sea
BLURB
CARRY ME HOME is a fictional
novel inspired by the true story of a teenage girl’s involvement in several
Mexican gangs in San Jose and Los Angeles. The members of her crew call her,
Guera, Spanish for “white girl” and it doesn’t take long for her to get lost in
their world of guns and drugs.
* * *
Lucy and Ruth are country girls
from a broken home. When they move to the city with their mother, leaving
behind their family ranch and dead-beat father, Lucy unravels.
They run to their grandparents’
place, a trailer park mobile home in the barrio of San Jose. Lucy’s barrio
friends have changed since her last visit. They’ve joined a gang called VC.
They teach her to fight, to shank, to beat a person unconscious and play with
guns. When things get too heavy, and lives are at stake, the three girls head
for LA seeking a better life.
But trouble always follows Lucy.
She befriends the wrong people, members of another gang, and every bad choice
she makes drags the family into her dangerous world.
Told from three points of view,
the story follows Lucy down the rabbit hole, along with her mother and sister
as they sacrifice dreams and happiness, friendships and futures. Love is
waiting for all of them in LA, but pursuing a life without Lucy could mean
losing her forever.
Ultimately it’s their bond with
each other that holds them together, in a true test of love, loss and survival.
Author Info
Jessica
Therrien is the author of the young adult paranormal fiction series Children of
the Gods. Book one in the series, Oppression, became a Barnes & Noble
best-seller shortly after its release.
Aside
from her Children of the Gods series, Jessica’s work can also be found in a
published collection of flash fiction stories called Campaigner Challenges
2011. Out of over 350 submissions her story, The Soulless, won first place for
people’s choice and fourth place in the judging round of Rachael Harrie’s Writing
Campaign Challenge. Her story, Saved, is also available as part of the
anthology.
Jessica
spent most of her life in the small town of Chilcoot, California, high up in
the Sierra Nevada Mountains. In this town of nearly 100 residents, with no
street lights or grocery stores, there was little to do but find ways to be
creative. Her mother, the local English teacher, inspired her to do all things
artistic, and ultimately instilled in her a love for language.
In
2003, Jessica attended California State University Long Beach where her passion
for language found her studying Chinese, and in 2005 she moved to Taiwan to
study abroad. From 2005 to 2006 Jessica was fully immersed in the Chinese
language as she attended National Taiwan University, and in 2008 she graduated
from San Diego State University magna cum laude.
Jessica
currently lives in Irvine with her husband and two sons. She is working on an
adult novel and a children's picture book.
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