Sybil Baker’s While You Were Gone renders Chattanooga in cinematic detail
With echoes of Shakespeare’s King Lear and Chekhov’s Three Sisters, Sybil Baker’s new novel, While You Were Gone, deftly explores family relationships—and family secrets. Baker will appear at Star Line Books in Chattanooga on June 22, and at the Chattanooga Readers and Writers Fair on June 23.
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Karen White’s latest novel serves up escapist fare with a low-country flair
Karen White’s Dreams of Falling ticks the boxes for a perfect summer read: evocative setting, tragic romance, unsolved mystery, and family drama. White will appear at a fundraiser for the Southern Lit Alliance in Chattanooga on June 14.
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Hannah Pittard’s Visible Empire gives a fictional account of 1962 Atlanta, rich and poor
Hannah Pittard’s new novel describes a plane crash’s effect not just on the white, rich, cultured elite—the “visible empire” that makes up Atlanta’s ruling class in 1962-but also on the city’s disenfranchised. Pittard will appear at Parnassus Books in Nashville on June 13.
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In Silas House’s Southernmost, a pastor grapples with the evolution of his beliefs
In Silas House’s Southernmost, Asher Sharp’s evolving beliefs have estranged him from his congregation, but he pins his hopes on his young son.
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Two teen boys struggle to mend their families in Greg Howard’s rollicking Social Intercourse
Greg Howard’s Social Intercourse is a raucously unvarnished tale of teen lust, family values, and social mores. Howard will appear on June 5 at Parnassus Books in Nashville.
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A songwriter navigates the Nashville music scene in Gabriel’s Songbook by Michael Amos Cody
It’s an old tale—boy meets girl; boy trades girl for a shot at fame; boy comes to regret that last part. Gabriel’s Songbook by Michael Amos Cody is a love song to music—but not to the music business.
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