Under an Imposing Shadow
In her debut novel, Mercy Hill, Hannah Thurman brings a sharp, attentive sensibility to a story of complex family dynamics, control, and the aftermath of a highly pressurized childhood.
Art in the Face of Erasure
Carolyn Newton’s second novel, Songs of the Dead Road, follows a Polish pianist whose life is shaped by wartime loss, Soviet labor camps, and the enduring power of music. The novel explores how memory and art bear witness to histories the world would rather forget.
Drop Me a Lifeline
Three Guesses, the debut novella by Memphian Chris McClain Johnson, offers an epistolary tale of surprising friendship between three very different adults. What begins as a search for the meaning of a painting by one of the three transforms into spirited, platonic exchanges that enrich each character’s life with greater meaning, shared intimacy, and self-actualization.
Buried Secrets
Dead Man Blues, a crime novel by S.D. House (pen name of bestselling author Silas House), combines a mysterious murder with the tale of a man in search of redemption.
Looking for Home
Kelsey Norris’ debut story collection, House Gone Quiet, chronicles characters at a turning point. Norris will appear with Tiana Clark and Alina Grabowski at Vanderbilt University on April 3.
A Singular Life
In From Here to the Great Unknown, Lisa Marie Presley and her daughter Riley Keough offer up a memoir filled with details salacious, sorrowful, and deeply sentimental. The story belongs mostly to Presley, the only child of Elvis and Priscilla Presley, and she holds nothing back about her wild and singular life.
