Women and Children First, the debut novel by Alina Grabowski, delivers a kaleidoscopic narrative that proves girls and women cannot be pigeonholed into the role of victim. Grabowski will appear at The Bookshop in Nashville on May 15.
He was a corruption-battling editor, educator, entrepreneur, attorney, and inventor. Jack McElroy’s Citizen Carl captures the lives and times of Carl Magee.
Stephen Hundley returns to Georgia as his literary stomping ground in his debut novel, Bomb Island, featuring a defunct sunken-bomb-turned-tourist-attraction and a tiger named Sugar.
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: With its reverberations of pain and trauma, Monica Brashears’ debut novel House of Cotton is not for the faint of heart; however, it is lush, gorgeous evidence of a new and decisive talent.
In Colm Tóibín’s new novel Long Island, an Irish immigrant in New York returns to her home village to reassess her broken life. Tóibín will discuss Long Island at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 9.
Pushing against narratives of Appalachia that include only white, patriarchal, and heteronormative characterizations, the authors collected in Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future hope to open up new spaces of possibility for envisioning the region.
