Getting Away

Swanson Sisters #1

by Amelia Jones

Sophie is a talented musician and in her final year of college when she meets Jack in a psychology class they both had to take as part of their degree completion plan. They both come from dysfunctional families and experienced abuse until they left home to forge a better future for themselves. They are both in their final year and are determined not to go home to their respective families after college. Sophie and Jack slowly connect as friends and their friendship deepens as they open up to each other. They decide to settle on a farm just outside of the college town and their pasts forge an unbreakable bond that allows them to move forward and face the future together, Sophie as a music teacher at college and Jack a farmer.

Genres: Romance

48 pages, Kindle Edition

First published September 23, 2013

About the author

Amelia Jones is an American art historian, art critic and curator specializing in feminist art, body/ performance art, video art and Dadaism. Her written works and approach to modern and contemporary art history are considered revolutionary in that she breaks down commonly assumed opinions and offers brilliantly conceived critiques of the art historical tradition and individual artist's positions in that often elitist sphere.

Amelia Jones studied art history at Harvard and the University of Pennsylvania. She received her Phd from UCLA in 1991.

Jones has taught art history at UC Riverside and is currently the Pilkington Chair of the art history department at Manchester University.

Jones received a Guggenheim Fellowship in 2000.

Amelia Jones is the daughter of Princeton Psychology professor Edward E. Jones.