**Intact Gift Giving Condition book**

But let's not get ahead of ourselves. It's late in the summer of 1989 and the body of twenty-two-year-old Joy Elliot Larson is about to be discovered on the bank of the Kawanee River. As a young mother living in her small hometown of Jasper, Mississippi, Joy lives paycheck to paycheck with her son, Jerry, and alcoholic husband, Carl. After enduring years of Carl's abuse, Joy reaches her breaking point when she discovers a large stash of money he's been keeping from her.