The gift of letting go
The challenge wasn’t just the spice drawer with the unopened 30-year-old jar of coriander and the multitude of little packets of red pepper delivered with more than a decade of pizzas. Not just the UCLA T-shirt I bought in 2007 on my son’s college tour. Not the second-best stew pot. No, when I got right down to the bone, it was the last tangible relics of my father I had trouble letting go.
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In Julia Claiborne Johnson’s Better Luck Next Time, desperate women seeking divorces find friendship and love
Set at a “divorce ranch” in Reno, Nevada, Julia Claiborne Johnson’s Better Luck Next Time describes the surprising, tender friendships that develop between two women looking to end their marriages and a young ranch hand who helps them transition to new lives.
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In The Caring Class, Richard Schweid examines the world of home health aides
Richard Schweid takes a sympathetic look at the working conditions for in-home caregivers in one New York community in The Caring Class.
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A historian weaves the story of Nashville hot chicken with a chronicle of race and real estate
In Rachel Louise Martin’s Hot, Hot Chicken, the story of a beloved Nashville dish is inextricable from the history of redlining and misguided urban renewal initiatives that undermined the city’s Black communities for generations. Martin will appear at a virtual event hosted by The Bookshop in Nashville on April 5.
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Book Excerpt: I’ll Take You There: Exploring Nashville’s Social Justice Sites
In I’ll Take You There: Exploring Nashville’s Social Justice Sites, editors Amie Thurber and Learotha Williams Jr. collect the contributions of more than 100 Nashvillians to tell stories “about place, power, and the historic and ongoing struggle toward a more just city for all.” I’ll Take You There will be published by Vanderbilt University Press in May 2021.
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Jillian Boehme’s The Stolen Kingdom features fantasy and intrigue
The Stolen Kingdom, the second young adult fantasy novel by Franklin writer Jillian Boehme, delivers beautiful language, compelling characters, and an intricate plot.
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