Troubled Paradise
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.
Book Reviews
Motherless Child
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.
Damaged Goods
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.
Both in and out of Place
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.
The Best-Laid Plans
With Colton Gentry’s Third Act, award-winning YA author Jeff Zentner tries his hand at adult contemporary romance with a Southern flair. Zentner will appear in conversation with Silas House and David Arnold at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 30.
A Committed Conservative
Breakups are hard — in some cases, dangerous. Ghosted: An American Story is conservative writer and activist Nancy French’s account of her split with the Republican Party following its embrace of Donald Trump and the harassment she and her family subsequently experienced.
