Review: Out of the Easy

Title: Out of the EasySeries: NoneGenre: Young Adult-Historical FictionAuthor: Ruta SepetysPublisher: Philomel BooksRelease Date: February 12, 2013Book: ARC sent by publisher It’s 1950, and as the French Quarter of New Orleans simmers with secrets, seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine is silently stirring a pot of her own. Known among locals as the daughter of a brothel prostitute, Josie wants more out of life than the Big Easy has to offer. She devises a plan get out, but a mysterious death in the Quarter leaves Josie tangled in an investigation that will challenge her allegiance to her mother, her conscience, and Willie Woodley, the brusque madam on Conti Street. Josie is caught between the dream of an elite college and a clandestine underworld. New Orleans lures...

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