"Backseat Saints" was the wrong book to read on the pool deck while you are stuck there for 14 hours with teenagers. To sum up this book in a sentence: This book is about a woman struggling to escape an abusive marriage. It is much more than that, but that is the gist.
"Backseat Saints" can be described as a sequel to Jackson's "Gods in Alabama" which I "read" (Audio CDs) a year or two ago, but it is more of a companion book. The main character Ro or Rose Mae was a minor character in "Gods in Alabama", but a pivotal one in terms of plot. You can really read either first, but I suggest Gods in Alabama first. This new book explores her story dealing with an abusive marriage and an abusive father and absentee mother in her past. She eventually reclaims the girl she was in the past, which helps her have the courage to escape and find her mother.
The title refers to Ro's reliance on prayer to the saints to help her through. She was raised Catholic and to be reverent of the saints, which is just another part of her that was oppressed when she entered her marriage.
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