Best of What's Next: Author Holly Goddard Jones

HOMETOWN: Russellville, Ky. BOOK: Girl Trouble FOR FANS OF: Harper Lee, Heidi Julavits, Claire Messud In Holly Goddard Jones’ short-story collection Girl Trouble, marriages crumble, probable murderers walk free and people toy with and discard each other’s feelings like trinkets from a cereal box. In artful but unpretentious prose, the 30-year-old author explores the simultaneous depths and limitations of being human, showing the many sides of what usually appear to be black-and-white issues....  read more