When novelist Geraldine Brooks received the devastating phone call informing her that her husband, writer Tony Horwitz, had died unexpectedly, she found herself unable to grieve. In her new memoir, Memorial Days, Brooks recounts traveling to a remote island off the Tasmanian coast, seeking a space in which she can engage “a grief deep enough to reflect our love.” Brooks will discuss Memorial Days at a ticketed event at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville on February 13.
In Nashville Native Orchids, Soraya Cates Parr has written a fascinating first book that is part natural science, part field guide, and part cultural heritage. Native orchids turn out to be a key to unlocking hidden nature throughout the city. Soraya Cates Parr will discuss the book at Warner Park Nature Center in Nashville on February 22.
Catherine Coleman Flowers’ Holy Ground: On Activism, Environmental Justice, and Finding Hope reveals an activist who knows what it takes to get things done.
A man is murdered in the midst of a contentious divorce, and his estranged wife’s family is thrown into turmoil. Who is responsible? And why? Those are the questions Tova Mirvis asks in her fourth novel, We Would Never.
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In Singled Out, Andrew Maraniss charts the phenomenal rise and terrible fall of Glenn Burke, a gifted athlete who struggled to conceal his sexuality at a time when there was no place for a gay man in the game of baseball.
Lola Kirke’s witty, insightful Wild West Village recalls a privileged, dysfunctional childhood and her journey to move past it. Kirke will discuss the book at Urban Cowboy Nashville on January 30.
