The debut romance novel from Tennessee writer Katie Holt, Not in My Book, is a steamy slow burn in which the two main characters write a romance novel together.
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Hot Collaboration
A writerly love story, happy ending not guaranteed
Joy Ramirez
Difficult Choices, Few Options
Sadeqa Johnson’s The House of Eve surveys the possibilities for two young Black women in the 1950s
Sadeqa Johnson’s fifth novel, The House of Eve, is a story of young Black women in the pre-Roe era. Johnson will appear at the 2023 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 21-22.
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Turning Hard Lessons into Action
Keeda Haynes understands the fight against injustice
In Bending the Arc: My Journey from Prison to Politics, Keeda Haynes describes her own experience of the justice system she’s trying to reform.
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Mixing Registers
Caki Wilkinson discusses her latest poetry collection, The Survival Expo
In The Survival Expo, poet Caki Wilkinson guides us through an exploration of what it means to survive our past without leaving it altogether, observing it from within but also with newfound perspective. Caki Wilkinson will discuss The Survival Expo at a virtual event hosted by Novel in Memphis on June 29.
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An Unspoken Language
Josephine Caminos Oría’s Sobremesa celebrates family and food
Sobremesa, the second book by Argentine-American author Josephine Caminos Oría, is a delicious paean to her roots and to the culture that informs her life’s work. Oría will discuss the book at a virtual event hosted by Novel in Memphis on May 6.
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Home Is a State of Mind
Simon Han’s debut novel considers what it means to live between two worlds
Simon Han’s appropriately titled debut novel, Nights When Nothing Happened, is a beautifully rendered meditation on what it means to belong — to a family, to a culture, to a particular place and time. Han will appear at a virtual event hosted by The Porch in Nashville on February 15.
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