Kathleen West is a Minnesota author, a veteran teacher, and an extremely talented and clever writer. This is her fourth book, after “Minor Dramas and Other Catastrophes,” “Are we There Yet?” and “Home or Away.”
Sarah Jones, age 30, has just moved to Minneapolis after ending a long-standing relationship and is getting settled with new friends and a job she loves. She made the friends through DMs and Insta*, finding a group of women called The Sarah Jones Project.
Everyone in the group is named Sarah Jones, so they use their ages when talking to and about each other. (For example 17, 27, 30, 69).They meet monthly to collaborate on various quirky endeavors, their most recent being yarn bombing a well known tree in a park. The yarn bombing garnered quite a bit of attention, both social media and a newspaper interview.
The story is told in a variety of ways: Sometimes with a normal narrative from one or another of the group, sometimes via group texts, police interviews, or video transcripts…