J.A. Wright
Jodi (J.A.) Wright was born and raised in the Pacific Northwest and moved to New Zealand in 1990, where she has worked in the festival and event industry since 1992.
How to Grow an Addict, her first novel, while not a memoir, reflects her journey into addiction and her struggle to crawl out. The novel received several awards.
Eat and Get Gas is a coming-of-age novel set in 1971 in a coastal town in the Pacific Northwest. It tells the story of an average American family struggling with the impact of the Vietnam War.
Eat and Get Gas is the winner of the 2024 Publisher's Weekly Booklife Prize for fiction (YA). The book also won the 2024 Story Circle Sarton Award for fiction (YA).
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