Women on a Mission
Ellen Morris Prewitt, a writer with ties to Memphis, Mississippi, and New Orleans, delivers a delightfully rambunctious tale with When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women. The author will appear at Novel in Memphis on May 2.
Book Reviews
This Little Piggy …
In American Bacon: The History of a Food Phenomenon, Mark A. Johnson examines the complicated 400-year history of what some argue is America’s favorite food — and all the cultural baggage it carries. Johnson will discuss American Bacon at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on April 16.
London Off the Beaten Path
Patrick Radden Keefe turns his investigative powers to the death of a young con artist in his sixth book, London Falling: A Mysterious Death in a Gilded City and a Family’s Search for Truth. What begins as an inquiry into a 19-year-old man’s possible murder quickly evolves into what Keefe is best known for: a bedrock-deep exhumation of some bad people’s biggest secrets. Keefe will discuss London Falling at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 11.
Death at the Museum
In Erica Wright’s The Museum of Unusual Occurrence, Alcyone “Aly” Orlean is a 20-something skeptic who runs an oddities museum and looks after her teenage sister. With no parents to help her, Aly’s got a lot on her plate. Then a dead body turns up. Wright will discuss the novel at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on April 9 and Plenty Bookshop in Cookeville on April 16.
Making Nashville Home
In Nashville’s New Americans, Sheri Sellmeyer profiles more than 30 first-generation immigrants from all over the world, describing the many ways they enrich the life and culture of the city. Sellmeyer will discuss the book at the Tennessee State Museum in Nashville on April 11.
The Devil in Many Guises
Rickey Fayne reimagines the Mephistophelean myth in his sumptuous novel The Devil Three Times, a multigenerational Black saga that limns the Atlantic slave trade, the Jim Crow South, and even the legend of blues maestro Robert Johnson.
