Bret Anthony Johnston’s We Burn Daylight sets doomed teenage love against religious conflagration
In We Burn Daylight, Bret Anthony Johnston evokes Romeo and Juliet’s teenage lovers amid a religious community’s fiery standoff with authorities that closely parallels the 1993 Waco siege. Bret Anthony Johnston will discuss We Burn Daylight at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 26-27.
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Quantum physics meets reality TV to create an entertaining and thought-provoking puzzle
“It was real. A TV show that could literally alter the fabric of reality to change one’s life.” This is the premise of Peng Shepherd’s novel All This and More. Shepherd will discuss All This and More at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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Bonnie Jo Campbell’s The Waters is a story of metamorphosis
Told in the cadence of a fairytale, Bonnie Jo Campbell’s novel The Waters follows a family of women and the unique place they inhabit. Campbell will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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Tales of death and loss mark Grey Wolfe LaJoie’s unconventional story collection
Grey Wolfe LaJoie’s debut story collection, Little Ones, encompasses the psyche of social outcasts, night terrors, and the perceptive sufferers and witnesses of grief
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Renée Watson makes room for Black women in a divine exploration of family, friendship, and romance
Renée Watson’s debut adult novel, skin & bones, is an adoring love letter to fat Black women. Watson will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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Marlitt Kaplan returns in Lauren Nossett’s The Professor
In The Professor, Lauren Nossett’s sophomore novel, former detective Marlitt Kaplan returns to university politics when her mother asks for her help in a Title IX investigation of a German professor. Lauren Nossett will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
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