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Death-Defying Feats

Four siblings reckon with a fortune teller’s prophecy in Chloe Benjamin’s The Immortalists

By Emily Choate | January 10, 2018

In Chloe Benjamin’s dazzling new novel, four siblings set down an uneasy path after a fortune teller reveals the dates on which each one of them will die. Benjamin will discuss The Immortalists at Parnassus Books in Nashville on January 20.

The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy: Life Under Occupation in the Upper South

Edited by Minoa Uffelman, Ellen Kanervo, and Phyllis Smith
University of Tennessee Press
208 pages
$29.95

“A useful volume to Civil War historians and women’s history scholars alike, The Civil War Letters of Sarah Kennedy pulls back the curtain on upper-middle-class family life and social relations in a mid-sized Middle Tennessee town during the Civil War and reveals the slow demise of slavery during the Union occupation.”

~ the publisher