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JoeyPinkney.com Book Review – Waiting for Monday by Janet Throneberry

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JoeyPinkney.com Book Review
“Waiting for Monday”
by Janet Throneberry
3 of 5 Stars

“Waiting for Monday” by Janet Throneberry was a wonderful coming-of-age-story set in the mid-South.

At its core, “Waiting for Monday” was about the life of Monday Dawn Holder. Monday was abhorred by her mother, resented by her father, disgusting to her sister, tolerated by her paternal grandparents and loved by her maternal grandparents – especially the grandmother. She faced a series of challenges and tragedies that would make the average reader count their blessings as the novel progressed. This story will tug at your heartstrings and leave you emotionally spent by its conclusion. Continue reading JoeyPinkney.com Book Review – Waiting for Monday by Janet Throneberry →

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5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Janet Throneberry, author of Waiting For Monday

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JoeyPinkney.com Exclusive Interview
5 Minutes, 5 Questions With…
Janet Throneberry, author of Waiting For Monday
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Waiting For Monday details the backward, fragmented life of an uneducated family in West Tennessee. Like the area they live in, the Holder family struggles against coming of age over several decades.

The youngest girl in the Holder family has a knack for challenging the family, stretching their patience and finding herself alone in dangerous, even life threatening battles.

Only some unlikely awakening of her family’s conscious or the reveal of their shocking secrets will give the growing child a chance to thrive live out her beliefs. But first she will have to survive…

Joey Pinkney: Where did you get the inspiration to write Waiting For Monday?

Janet Throneberry: Keeping in mind Waiting for Monday is fictional, I was blessed or cursed, depending on how you look at it, with a keen memory of Continue reading 5 Minutes, 5 Questions With… Janet Throneberry, author of Waiting For Monday →