Alina Grabowski’s debut novel explores questions of loss and identity in a seaside New England town
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.
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Crusading newspaper editor Carl Magee comes alive in compelling biography Citizen Carl
He was a corruption-battling editor, educator, entrepreneur, attorney, and inventor. Jack McElroy’s Citizen Carl captures the lives and times of Carl Magee.
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Stephen Hundley’s Bomb Island explores a 14-year-old boy’s dangerous coming of age
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.
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Monica Brashears’ debut novel delivers a strange, haunting world
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.
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In Colm Tóibín’s Long Island, an Irish immigrant returns home to pick up the pieces of her life
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.
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Deviant Hollers pushes against reductive stereotypes about Appalachia’s future
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.
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