Michael Amos Cody blends murder and the supernatural in his new thriller Avalon Moon. Set in Runion, North Carolina, the novel opens with community members worried about an impending snowstorm and the potential danger posed by a new wolf sanctuary on a local island — but they soon have bigger threats to fear.
In Delivery, the new novel by Christopher Hebert, a star baseball player hides from the expectations of friends by delivering pizzas, but he knows that a reckoning of his future is coming soon. Hebert will discuss Delivery at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on May 14.
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.
In Douglas Stuart’s John of John, a complicated father-son story plays out against the dramatic backdrop of Scotland’s windswept Western Isles. Stuart will discuss the novel at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 4.
In The News from Dublin, Colm Tóibín depicts characters who employ grit and guile to create new homes and fresh identities. Tóibín will discuss The News from Dublin at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 30.
The world depicted in Patrick Strickland’s debut story collection, A History of Heartache, is thick with undercurrents of personal violence, addiction, cynicism, and economic instability. Strickland’s stories persistently braid these elements together as they work to generate the stories’ thematic power.
