In Ben Markovits’ The Rest of Our Lives, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize, a middle-aged man embarks on a cross-country journey to rediscover his identity. Markovits will discuss The Rest of Our Lives at Parnassus Books in Nashville on January 12.
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.
Queer Communion, edited by Davis Shoulders, gathers 13 queer writers to reflect on the meaning of faith and community.
Liz Parker’s Witches of Honeysuckle House captivates readers with its generation-spanning narrative as several iterations of Caldwell witches each work to break the 13-year curse on the property.
In his third collection, Feller, East Tennessee poet Denton Loving offers moments of heightened exchange between the human and nonhuman worlds.
The poems in Derelict Days in That Derelict Town, the fourth collection by Knoxvillian Alan May, embrace gilded weirdness and delicious decrepitude, but their staying power lies in their depiction of human loneliness.
