A Fool’s Game?
Is a career in music worth the heartache? That’s the question for Maggie Corbin, the protagonist of Susannah Felts’ new novel, The Come Apart. Felts will appear in Nashville at Vinyl Tap on June 17 and Vanderbilt University on July 9.
A Parable of Young Womanhood
In her debut novel, Girls with Long Shadows, Tennessee Hill follows the identical Binderup triplets — Baby A, Baby B, and Baby C — as adulthood and community attitudes intrude on their deep bond.
Family, Memory, and Truth
Florence, the debut poetry collection by Knoxvillian Bess Cooley, is a euphonic meditation on family, memory, and truth that plays with time and form.
Growing Up Fast
Lola Kirke’s witty, insightful Wild West Village recalls a privileged, dysfunctional childhood and her journey to move past it. Kirke will discuss the book at Urban Cowboy Nashville on January 30.
People and Place
Told in the cadence of a fairytale, Bonnie Jo Campbell’s novel The Waters follows a family of women and the unique place they inhabit. Campbell will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
Letters to a Younger Sister
When Doan Phuong Nguyen was in elementary school, her family immigrated to Nashville from Vietnam. This complicated transition inspired Nguyen’s new book, A Two-Placed Heart, a lightly embellished autobiographical, epistolary story told in verse. Nguyen will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on September 24 and the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 26-27.
