In Walking Gentry Home, poet Alora Young crafts a family history from the stories passed down through generations.
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History in the Making
Poet Alora Young makes a triumphant debut with Walking Gentry Home
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Harm Reduction
Sam Quinones’ The Least of Us makes a compelling case for our survival
In The Least of Us: True Tales of America and Hope in the Time of Fentanyl and Meth, journalist Sam Quinones reveals the new street drugs that are decimating the lives of Americans — and the people who are fighting them in their communities. Quinones will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on November 5.
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Survival Kit
Jenny Offill’s Weather is a guidebook for finding hope in the dark
Jenny Offill’s latest novel, Weather, is a meditation on the challenges of our times and a lesson in maintaining optimism despite our worst fears.
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Food Fight
Anissa Gray discusses family, process, and her absorbing debut novel
With The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls, Anissa Gray digs deep into sibling relationships, trauma, and grace. Gray will appear at the 2019 Southern Festival of Books, held in Nashville on October 11-13.
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High Water
The Gone Dead is a blues novel that’s out to summon ghosts
In Chanelle Benz’s debut novel The Gone Dead, a woman arrives in the Mississippi Delta to claim her inheritance — and stays to solve the mystery of her father’s death. Benz will discuss The Gone Dead at Novel in Memphis on June 25
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Against the Odds
The World According to Fannie Davis is full of history, luck, and love
In The World According to Fannie Davis: My Mother’s Life in the Detroit Numbers, Bridgett M. Davis tells the story of her mother, a woman who “made a way out of no way” as a banker in the underground lottery. Davis will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 13.
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