We’re taking a little vacation, but we’ll return on July 29 with a full schedule of interviews, reviews, and bookish news. Meanwhile, happy reading!
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Chapter 16 is on hiatus until July 29.
Healing the Mother Wound
Sarai Johnson’s debut novel is a deeply moving, multigenerational exploration of womanhood and motherhood
Sarai Johnson’s debut novel, Grown Women, is an eloquent story of multiple generations of Black women navigating their lives against a nonlinear backdrop of American motherhood.
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Portrait of the Artist as a Young Nashvillian
Liz Riggs’ debut novel looks at a creative woman’s struggle to find herself
With her debut novel, Lo Fi, Liz Riggs proves that Nashville can hold its own along with New York, L.A., or Boston when it comes to locales where young artists go to find themselves. Riggs will discuss Lo Fi at Parnassus Books in Nashville on July 31.
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He Would’ve Said Goodbye
A madcap murder investigation helps a family cope with a loved one’s death in Fowl Play
“It’s kinda hard to hunt for a murderer,” declares young Chloe Alvarez, “when you don’t want to remember that a person is dead.” Chloe is the narrator and main character of Nashville writer Kristin O’Donnell Tubb’s latest middle-grade novel, Fowl Play, and she is desperate to know what really happened to her Uncle Will. Fowl Play is scheduled for release on July 30, and a launch event will be held at the Nashville Zoo at Grassmere on August 2.
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To Live on This Margin of Earth
Three debut poetry collections highlight the originality of their authors’ visions
Recently published debut poetry collections from Tara M. Stringfellow, Ben Groner III, and Stephanie Choi invite us into the particulars of their authors’ imaginative worlds.
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Explosive Revelations
Betsy Phillips’ Dynamite Nashville is a raucous, engrossing investigation of white supremacist violence
In Dynamite Nashville, Betsy Phillips plunges into the world of white supremacist violence in Nashville during the civil rights era. Phillips will discuss the book at the Tennessee State Museum on July 13.
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