Everything's Coming Up Josey

by Susan May Warren

"I need you," the tall, good-looking missionary had said...but he'd been speaking to Josey's entire church at the time. Had she taken it too literally? Because she was no longer in Gull Lake, Minnesota. She was a missionary. In Russia. For a year. True, Josey had wanted to skip town when her sister married her ex, and her secret crush/best friend got engaged. But Russia? Yet after a few weeks the idea grew on her. She could speak enough words to buy...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0373785615
• ISBN13: 9780373785612
• Release Date: May 2006
• Publisher: Steeple Hill
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.61 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.1" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

This story not only entertained me, but also blessed me.

Wow! This story was unbelievably cool! Move over Kristin Billerbeck! You need to share the spotlight with Susan May Warren. I had no idea until I read Everything's Coming Up Josey that there was an author out there who wrote chick lit as good as you do! I SO loved this story. It was SO unique and wonderful. A real joy to read! I smiled and laughed so much I think people began to wonder about me. I kept wanting to read sections to my husband--who, being a man, of course--didn't get it. This is one novel I could easily read twice. The love story was rich, the spiritual aspects were truly insightful and inspiring, and the humor was fantastic! I found myself turning the pages and wanting to read it every chance I got. I had a hard time putting this one down! Highly recommended. Now I have to go pull out the other books I have that Susan May Warren wrote. I had no idea she could wow me so much. And to make a missionary story into chick lit with such pizzaz that you want a sequel? Who'd a thunk it?

Warren Writes another Winner

Susan May Warren strikes gold again in this fictious retelling of part of her time spent in Russia. It is an excellent read, with point of view and plot keeping the reader engrossed in the book from beginning to end. Readers can't go wrong picking up this book.

One of my new favorites!

I have yet to read anything by Susan May Warren that I have not loved and this is no exception. I felt like I was discovering the ups and downs of adapting to a different culture right along with Josey. This was an extremely well thought out story that keeps you hooked until the end. Great "Lost" references too!

Hilarious and moving

For those of you who are hesitant to follow Susan May Warren into a different genre of Christian fiction, have no fear on that point. You will find everything between the covers of this novel that you've always expected from her and more. "Everything's Coming Up Josey" is chicklit and one of the first of its kind that I have ever read. I was drawn in right away by the witty and clever first-person dialogue that Josey has with others and with herself. I found Josey to be a character that was real and accessible, didn't always speak in complete sentences, often did or said the "wrong thing", and was able to show us that she had a past, but how she was brought to Jesus and has become a different person because of it. Josey's trials and hurdles that she endures as a one-year missionary to Russia and even before that (since we begin this chapter in her story at the wedding of Josey's ex-boyfriend to her younger sister!) are so very close to something that most women have gone through in one form or another that you can't help but empathize and feel a real kinship with her. After it all, Josey feels like a friend that you have in real life because she lets us see who she really is, even when she doesn't quite fully understand who that is all the time, as most of us don't. The storyline moves along quickly but never makes you feel as if you are outside of what's going on with her. Most of her experiences, either in her present time or as memories, are related to us sprinkled with such humor and feeling that you feel her embarassment, indignation, amusement, mortification or deep emotion when each is called for. On the whole, "Everything's Coming Up Josey" was an engaging, fun read that I would recommend to anyone, whether you are acquainted with this author's other works or not.