Monica Brashears’ debut novel delivers a strange, haunting world
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: With its reverberations of pain and trauma, Monica Brashears’ debut novel House of Cotton is not for the faint of heart; however, it is lush, gorgeous evidence of a new and decisive talent.
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In Colm Tóibín’s Long Island, an Irish immigrant returns home to pick up the pieces of her life
In Colm Tóibín’s new novel Long Island, an Irish immigrant in New York returns to her home village to reassess her broken life. Tóibín will discuss Long Island at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 9.
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Deviant Hollers pushes against reductive stereotypes about Appalachia’s future
Pushing against narratives of Appalachia that include only white, patriarchal, and heteronormative characterizations, the authors collected in Deviant Hollers: Queering Appalachian Ecologies for a Sustainable Future hope to open up new spaces of possibility for envisioning the region.
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Jeff Zentner’s new novel signals a change in literary direction
With Colton Gentry’s Third Act, award-winning YA author Jeff Zentner tries his hand at adult contemporary romance with a Southern flair. Zentner will appear in conversation with Silas House and David Arnold at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 30.
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Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s Bite by Bite is a nourishing, lyrical sampler
Aimee Nezhukumatathil’s latest book, Bite by Bite: Nourishments and Jamborees, offers a veritable smorgasbord of flavors and a multi-course menu of memories. Nezhukumatathil will appear at Novel in Memphis on May 4, and she’ll be in conversation with Margaret Renkl at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 7.
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Amy Tan turns her discerning eye to the avian world
With The Backyard Bird Chronicles, novelist Amy Tan has put fiction aside in favor of drawing, observing, and pondering the multitude of birds that find refuge and refreshment at her California home. Tan will discuss the book at Parnassus Books in Nashville on May 10.
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