Rachel M. Hanson’s The End of Tennessee takes readers inside a teen girl’s decision to run away from an abusive home and her struggle to create a new life.
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A Runaway’s Story
Rachel M. Hanson’s memoir recounts her flight from abuse
A Country of Purity
With Tell Me Everything, Elizabeth Strout unites her most beloved characters
In Tell Me Everything, Strout unites her most famous and beloved characters — Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, and Bob Burgess — in a haunting but nevertheless optimistic examination of the way we depend on stories to survive. Strout will appear at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville on September 12.
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A Place Called Vulnerable
Karen Salyer McElmurray retraces her life’s journey in I Could Name God in Twelve Ways
Award-winning writer Karen Salyer McElmurray’s collection of essays, I Could Name God in Twelve Ways, is many things at once: memoir, travelogue, and prayer. McElmurray reflects on her upbringing in rural Kentucky, her adventurous youth traveling the world, and her career as a writer and professor.
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Variations on the Immigrant Life
Ruben Reyes Jr.’s debut story collection captures the endless diversity of Latin American migration
In his debut story collection, There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, Ruben Reyes Jr. uses a broad array of literary styles and emotional registers to capture the breadth of the immigrant experience. He will discuss the book at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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Wedding Blues
The ceremony unites two as one — but not always
It’s impossible for humans to know the end from the beginning, whether writing a poem or attending a solemn ceremony.
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A Man of the Book
Novelist Jamie Quatro plumbs the desires of body and soul in Two-Step Devil
Set on and around Lookout Mountain, Jamie Quatro’s Two-Step Devil is a sharp-edged, tangy novel, layered with the region’s mysteries. Quatro will appear at The Granfalloon in Chattanooga on September 10, The Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Knoxville on September 20, and the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 26-27.
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