Chapter 16
A Community of Tennessee Writers, Readers & Passersby

The Mission of the Family

Love rules in Adriana Trigiani’s The Good Left Undone

Adriana Trigiani’s new novel is a sweeping, multigenerational romance rooted in Tuscany. Trigiani will discuss The Good Left Undone at the East Tennessee History Center in Knoxville on May 6.

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Emily’s Way

Poetry still has a place in our lives

“I can certainly use these for Poetry Month,” I’ll say to no one in particular, as if strangers might look askance at a person buying five books of poetry but not at a woman talking to herself.

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War in the Streets

Don Winslow’s City on Fire sets a mob war in gray 1980s New England

Don Winslow draws on Homer’s Iliad to craft a modern-day crime classic pitting Irish and Italian American mob families against each other in 1980s Rhode Island. Winslow will discuss City on Fire at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 3.

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Fish Out of Water

Cathey Daniels explores personal agency in rural Appalachia in her debut novel

In her debut novel, Live Caught, R. Cathey Daniels explores betrayal and illicit activity in the rural North Carolina mountains. Daniels will discuss the book at a virtual event hosted by Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on April 25.

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Father Knows Best

A Blue Grass Boy’s memoir of life on the road with the great Bill Monroe

Bass player Mark Hembree’s On the Bus with Bill Monroe is a story about life on the road with a legendary musician, a legendarily complex man, and his hard-driving music.

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