Margaret Verble’s Stealing weaves a tapestry of pain and resilience
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: In her latest novel, Stealing, Margaret Verble probes the ugly history of institutionalizing Native children through the story of one little girl in 1950s Oklahoma.
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A comic-style book for young readers offers a delightful tour of the science behind animal immune systems
Heather L. Montgomery explores the weird and wonderful world of animal immunology in her latest book for young readers, Sick! The Twists and Turns Behind Animal Germs.
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Bradley Sides explores the supernatural in Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood
Bradley Sides’ sophomore short story collection, Crocodile Tears Didn’t Cause the Flood, combines the mundane with the supernatural.
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Nature bears the burden of memory in William Woolfitt’s Ring of Earth
The stories in William Woolfitt’s collection Ring of Earth respect the complexity of memory — both communal and personal.
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A young enslaved woman in New Orleans finds a way to fight back
In his novel The American Daughters, Maurice Carlos Ruffin tells the story of Adebimpe, known as Ady, a young, enslaved woman living in New Orleans just before the Civil War, and the underground network of powerful women to whom she is introduced. Ruffin will appear at Novel in Memphis on March 1 and The Bookshop in Nashville on April 18.
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Stories from the Tenants Downstairs explores a place that’s both hell and home
FROM THE CHAPTER 16 ARCHIVE: Sidik Fofana’s Stories from the Tenants Downstairs, a debut collection of linked stories, emerges from a high-rise in Harlem, brilliantly capturing the scrapes, scents, and spirit of this gentrifying neighborhood. Sidik Fofana will appear at Vanderbilt University on February 22.
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