Maggie O’Farrell brings her extraordinary skill for rendering family grief to her latest novel, Land, a sprawling story that crosses several landscapes and spans millennia. O’Farrell will discuss Land at Vanderbilt University on July 2.
A Fortune of Sand, the lively debut adult novel by bestselling YA author Ruta Sepetys, dives into the wealth, glamour, and corruption of 1920s Detroit. Sepetys will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 26.
In Douglas Stuart’s John of John, a complicated father-son story plays out against the dramatic backdrop of Scotland’s windswept Western Isles. Stuart will discuss the novel at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 4.
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.
