Margaret Verble’s Stealing weaves a tapestry of pain and resilience
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In her latest novel, Stealing, Margaret Verble probes the ugly history of institutionalizing Native children through the story of one little girl in 1950s Oklahoma.
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Steve Inskeep depicts a principled Lincoln who built coalitions out of thin air
Steve Inskeep’s Differ We Must delivers a brisk yet incisive collection of 16 encounters throughout the course of Abraham Lincoln’s career, revealing valuable lessons for our own time. Inskeep will appear with historian Heather Cox Richardson at the main branch of the Nashville Public Library on October 12.
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Timothy Egan chronicles the rise and fall of the KKK in the 1920s
Timothy Egan’s A Fever in the Heartland is a true tale of bigotry, cruelty, and the lust for power in 1920s Indiana. Egan will appear at the 2023 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 21-22.
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Tom Lake is Ann Patchett at her best
The protagonist of Ann Patchett’s Tom Lake tells her daughters the full story of her past. Or does she? Patchett will discuss Tom Lake at Harpeth Hall School in Nashville on July 31, Novel in Memphis on August 18, and the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 21-22.
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Abraham Verghese’s The Covenant of Water braids stories over generations
Abraham Verghese mines the history of Kerala’s St. Thomas Christians — and larger debates about faith and science — in his sprawling second novel, The Covenant of Water. Verghese will discuss the book at a ticketed event at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 18.
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Margaret Verble weaves the real and imagined in When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In her beguiling When Two Feathers Fell from the Sky, novelist Margaret Verble, a 2016 finalist for the Pulitzer Prize and an enrolled citizen of the Cherokee Nation, reimagines, for her own wily aims, the Nashville of a century ago, with allusions to Jim Crow, W.E.B. Du Bois’ Talented Tenth, and the city’s white gentry.
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