Laughter in the Face of Despair
Steve Stern’s A Fool’s Kabbalah affirms the power of stories — and a dose of humor — to protect a people and its history. Stern will discuss the novel at Burke’s Book Store in Memphis on March 13.
Fiction
Managing the Monsters of Childhood
In Kerry Madden-Lunsford’s middle-grade novel, Werewolf Hamlet, something terrible is happening to Angus Gettlefinger’s 17-year-old brother, Liam. He’s turning into a monster, and Angus doesn’t know why. Madden-Lunsford will discuss Werewolf Hamlet at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on February 20 and at Parnassus Books in Nashville on March 24.
Personal Stakes
Ex-CIA operative Court Gentry’s most personal adventure explodes into bookstores this month with Midnight Black, the 14th book in the Gray Man series from Memphis author Mark Greaney. He’ll appear at Novel in Memphis on February 22.
Fierce Protection
A man is murdered in the midst of a contentious divorce, and his estranged wife’s family is thrown into turmoil. Who is responsible? And why? Those are the questions Tova Mirvis asks in her fourth novel, We Would Never.
Just the Facts
Alternative Facts, the debut story collection by Emily Greenberg, is equal parts brilliant and bonkers as it interrogates the slippery thing we call truth. Greenberg will appear at Novel in Memphis on February 6.
Hot Collaboration
The debut romance novel from Tennessee writer Katie Holt, Not in My Book, is a steamy slow burn in which the two main characters write a romance novel together.
