Wiley Cash’s fourth novel combines rich characters and compelling mystery
…Ghosts Come Home. Photo: Mallory Cash Set in 1984 in the small North Carolina coastal town of Oak Island, When Ghosts Come Home opens as an early-morning, low-flying airplane awakens…
Kristen Radtke’s Seek You considers our solitary era
…obsession as an expression of loneliness. She smartly contrasts loneliness with “aloneness,” which can be a healthy reflective state, even creative. Her panels — often spare, with single figures floating…
Brian Broome’s memoir rescues a childhood ended too soon
…children is enshrouded in the daily grind for survival. Punch Me Up to the Gods is constructed around verses from Gwendolyn Brooks’ 1959 poem “We Real Cool.” Reflecting the structure…
In Robert Olen Butler’s Late City, America’s last surviving WWI soldier reports his life story to God
…a newsman’s final testimony, conveys the novel’s dual interest in looking back and in breaking news. The final printing of the Cunningham Examiner contains shocking revelations, indeed — scoops that…
Margaret Renkl discusses her new essay collection, Graceland, at Last
…surrounding them, of ecological disasters caused by indifference, and activists who work to combat that indifference. It’s also the place that gave us the likes of William Edmondson, Dolly Parton,…
Young women use magic to achieve vigilante justice
…traditional mystery. Natasha is desperate to find out who is responsible for the loss of her sister, and Della must conceal the truth at all costs to protect her mother….
