Ruta Sepetys - Out of the Easy

 

 

 Stephen Usery interviews Ruta Sepetys talks about the follow-up to her bestselling debut, Between Shades of Gray. Her new novel is Out of the Easy, and it stars the seventeen year-old Josie Moraine who has raised herself since elementary school. Her mother is a prostitute, and the precocious Josie wants to better her own lot in life at the beginning of the 1950s in New Orleans.