young adult category and was nominated for the Pennsylvania Young Reader’s Choice Award. Jabaley is a practicing optometrist. She brings sharp focus to eye care by day and to storytelling by night. She lives in the north Georgia mountains with her sports-obsessed family and two rescue dogs.
Jabaley's new novel is What's Yours Is Mine.
At CrimeReads the author tagged six novels that depict various worlds of cutthroat parenting. One title on the list:
Megan Abbott, You Will Know MeRead about the other entries on the list.
This book explores inside a tightly knit community of gymnasts and their hyper-involved families whose lives revolve around their children’s athletic futures. This was the first book I read that demonstrated how parentsbecome consumed with their children’s accolades outside of an academic setting.
Being that I spend a lot of time inside the world of high-pressure sports, this story spoke to me. It really encapsulated how parents will sacrifice everything—time, money, emotional stability—to support their children’s athletic success. In a world where every parent thinks their child is the best, tension and competition boil at every opportunity for playing time, recruitment, and scholarship opportunity.
This book revolved around gymnastics and the strive for the Olympics, but it could so easily take place inside of any athletic endeavor. Her dark, tense writing style effectively portrayed the stress simmering inside parents, praying for their kids to win.
You Will Know Me is among Zach Vasquez's seven top dark novels about motherhood and Alison Wisdom's nine coming-of-age stories about girls who do bad things.
--Marshal Zeringue
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