Deeper, Darker, Further
In Ruby Falls, the latest novel by Gin Phillips, eight people enter a Tennessee cave for a publicity stunt that does not go according to plan, and one winds up dead. Who among them is the murderer?
Book Reviews
Celebrating Minnie
Howdy!: The Minnie Pearl Story explores the life and career of one of country music’s most fondly remembered performers. Authors Mary Ellen Pethel and Don Cusic will discuss the book at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville on March 7.
Snapshots of a City
Susan Finch’s linked short story collection, Dear Second Husband, takes readers on a layered journey through the lives of Nashvillians facing a range of emotional entanglements and predicaments. Susan Finch will appear at The Porch in Nashville on March 3 and Vanderbilt Bookstore in Nashville on April 7.
A Tale of Two Orphans
Tayari Jones’ dynamic new novel Kin revisits the mid-20th century South for a story narrated by orphaned “cradle friends” whose travels take them from rural Louisiana to separate lives, with one landing at an elite Atlanta college and the other finding work in the gritty nightlife of Memphis. Jones will discuss Kin at Parnassus Books in Nashville on February 23 and Novel in Memphis on March 18.
Glimpses of Vulnerability
In The Irish Goodbye, Beth Ann Fennelly returns to the “micro-memoir,” a form that conveys human experience through brief, richly detailed scenes.
Art in the Face of Erasure
Carolyn Newton’s second novel, Songs of the Dead Road, follows a Polish pianist whose life is shaped by wartime loss, Soviet labor camps, and the enduring power of music. The novel explores how memory and art bear witness to histories the world would rather forget.
