Farm Girl Uprooted to Land of Sin
05/01/09By Gretchen Lee Bourquin
In the new novel No Sensible People by Gretchen Lee Bourquin, When Jennie's parents die she is forced to move from her farm in Leifton, Minnesota to Minneapolis, the place her mother used to call "The Land of Sin" with her Aunt Lucy -- who she'd never met. But Jennie isn't exactly the girl Lucy expected either, and at 26 she wasn't expecting a nine year old to drop into her life. And Lucy's husband, Frank doesn't exactly expect Lucy's high school sweetheart to be around so much either. But they all discover that sometimes the only way to move forward is to finally face your past.
Minnesota author Gretchen Lee Bourquin introduces her debut novel, No Sensible People, published by Lulu.com, and available on Amazon.com. Early reviews have raved about the strong characters who try to do their best despite their inperfections. No Sensible People collides the more conservative values Jennie has inherited from her mother with the more liberal environment her Aunt Lucy has become accustomed to since living in Min neapolis. Can there really be goodness in "the land of sin?"or is Jennie caught in a world with no sensible people? Gretchen Lee Bourquin currently lives in the suburbs of Minneapolis, and is a graduate of the Literature/Creative Writing program at Southwest Minnesota State University, in Marshall, MN. She writes fiction, poetry, blogs, and other articles on the web. She's also working on her next novel tentatively titled Almighty Whispers in Our Souls, the prequel to No Sensible People. Author homepage http://www.gretchenleebourquin.com
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