Anjali Enjeti on the books that inspire her
The Parted Earth, Enjeti’s debut novel, tells a story shaped by the sectarian violence of India’s 1947 partition, following the legacy of that trauma from the streets of New Delhi to 21st-century Atlanta. To mark the book’s paperback release this month, Chapter 16 asked Enjeti to share some of her favorite books and authors via our Glorious Pastime questionnaire.
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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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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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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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Steve Yarbrough’s Stay Gone Days follows the lives of two sisters
In his eighth novel, Stay Gone Days, Steve Yarbrough explores how to escape the past — and whether we even can.
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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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