

Smith has created a world that is at once startlingly real and heartbreakingly unreal. A stylish exploration of loss." -Kirkus Reviews, "Enthralling! From page one, I was inside the life (and death) of Pasadena. Fascinating, tragic, and equal parts glossy and gritty, this is a noir investigation of familial expectations, tension, and turmoil."- School Library Journal "Jude is a tough nut, but as the story unfolds, so does she.

Lockhart, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars "Impossible to put down. Smith is an author with astonishing range and she's a stellar storyteller."-E. Pasadena is stylish and still sad, chilling and still hopeful, open-hearted and still mysterious. Smith probes the vulnerable underbellies of a lot of toothy sharks in this page-turning California noir. In Jude, there is some of all of us-knowing deep truths but hoping for something else, hoping somehow to change a history already set in motion."-Jacqueline Woodson, National Book Award-winning author of Brown Girl Dreaming "Beautiful clothes, bad habits, ugly secrets: Sherri L. Smith's novel had me leaning forward in my seat trying to remember to breathe. Lockhart, New York Times bestselling author of We Were Liars, "Enthralling! From page one, I was inside the life (and death) of Pasadena.


"Enthralling! From page one, I was inside the life (and death) of Pasadena.
