But for Fortune is a moving novel of resilience, family trauma, and coping with mental illness
In Erin Miller Reid’s But for Fortune, we meet Corinth Eaton, who appears to be a thriving young woman on the verge of having everything she’s ever wanted. Except she’s not. Reid will discuss the novel at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on November 12.
A young woman discovers the world and herself far from home
How reading Manacled showed me I was a victim of sexual abuse
Four friends from rural Kentucky weather the storms of life and love for more than 50 years
In Yiyun Li’s novel Music Against the Night, two music prodigies journey toward love and fame in Romantic Era Europe
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