Susan Finch’s linked short story collection, Dear Second Husband, takes readers on a layered journey through the lives of Nashvillians facing a range of emotional entanglements and predicaments. Susan Finch will appear at The Porch in Nashville on March 3 and Vanderbilt Bookstore in Nashville on April 7.
“I want to go home,” I say to my husband. What I mean is I want to age backwards to 6, to sled with my mother in the parking lot of Joyce Kilmer school outside Boston. I want to relive age 25, to play penny-ante poker with my father in his rent-controlled, bachelor shoebox in Revere, with the sea slapping shore down the street. But Mom died two years after tobogganing, when I was 8, and Dad drew his last flush a year after I turned 40. There is no going home.
In Eliana Ramage’s debut novel, To the Moon and Back, Steph Harper is a queer Cherokee girl whose sole ambition is to become the first Cherokee astronaut.
