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A Grown-Up Kind of Pretty cornbread and poppy which from the start hasA Grown Up Kind of Pretty is a powerful saga of three generations of women, plagued by hardships and torn by a devastating secret, yet inextricably joined by the bonds of family. Fifteen year old Mosey Slocumb spirited, sassy, and on the cusp of womanhood is shaken when a small grave is unearthed in the backyard, and determined to figure out why it's there. Liza, her stroke ravaged mother, is haunted by choices she made as a teenager. But it is Jenny,