Normal Life Impossible
In her latest story collection, Hellions, Julia Elliott reimagines the grotesque on her own terms.
Fiction
Learning the Hard Way
The music industry can be a cutthroat business when it comes to recording contracts, shady promoters, and new talent desperate to make it big. It can also be murder. Ezra MacRae learns that the hard way in the new crime thriller from Michael Amos Cody, Streets of Nashville.
A Dazzling Writer of Flawed People
Lorrie Moore’s work has been celebrated since her 1985 debut, the short story collection Self-Help. Her 1994 novel, Who Will Run the Frog Hospital?, had Nick Hornby naming her “the best American writer of her generation,” and her latest, I Am Homeless if This Is Not My Home, won the National Book Critics Circle Award. Moore will be the featured author for this year’s Writers@Work in Chattanooga, April 22-24.
Smile, Everyone!
Ashley N. Roth’s debut novel We Never Took a Bad Picture explores a marriage over the decades, charting the highs and lows of an alcoholic, womanizing husband and a wife desperate for children but plagued by miscarriages.
So Many Secrets
Andy Anderegg’s debut novel, Plum, follows a young woman as she comes of age and navigates relationships in the wake of childhood abuse.
A Game of Pure Chance
In Jennifer Haigh’s Rabbit Moon, divorced parents fly to Shanghai after their estranged daughter is hospitalized following a car accident. Haigh will discuss Rabbit Moon at Parnassus Books in Nashville on April 17.
