Out of the Easy

Name: Out of the Easy
Rating: 4.05 (77564 reviews)

by Ruta Sepetys

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New Orleans, 1950. Seventeen-year-old Josie Moraine works in a French Quarter bookshop and cleans the brothel where her unreliable mother is employed. Determined not to let her parentage or the expectations of the neighbourhood define her, Josie plans to leave the city and earn a place at an elite college.

A wealthy visitor’s unexplained death draws Josie into an investigation involving her mother, local criminals and the formidable madam Willie Woodley. As the underworld closes around her, she must judge whom she can trust and whether escaping the Big Easy requires abandoning the unconventional community that has protected her.