Five friends. One small town. Absolutely nothing going to plan.
Joy loved Michigan but could not say it. So she watched him move on. That was her first heartbreak. Her second was realizing she did it to herself.
In small-town Arkansas, five friends are each fighting a different war. Diane against the mother she swore she would never forgive or become. Jennifer against the loneliness that accepts less than love. Michelle against the heartbreak a close friend caused, unintentionally. And April against the religion that taught him, the truth he spoke was a sin.
The Joy in Michigan is a novel about the courage to speak up-to a lover, to a mother, to the world, and to yourself. In the gossip-filled streets of small-town Arkansas, these five friends discover the hardest truth of all: before you can save anyone else, you have to find the strength to save yourself.
