Women on a Mission
Ellen Morris Prewitt, a writer with ties to Memphis, Mississippi, and New Orleans, delivers a delightfully rambunctious tale with When We Were Murderous Time-Traveling Women. The author will appear at Novel in Memphis on May 2.
Fiction
Death at the Museum
In Erica Wright’s The Museum of Unusual Occurrence, Alcyone “Aly” Orlean is a 20-something skeptic who runs an oddities museum and looks after her teenage sister. With no parents to help her, Aly’s got a lot on her plate. Then a dead body turns up. Wright will discuss the novel at Union Ave. Books in Knoxville on April 9 and Plenty Bookshop in Cookeville on April 16.
The Devil in Many Guises
Rickey Fayne reimagines the Mephistophelean myth in his sumptuous novel The Devil Three Times, a multigenerational Black saga that limns the Atlantic slave trade, the Jim Crow South, and even the legend of blues maestro Robert Johnson.
The Gift of the Golden Thread
The Water Women, a novel by Bonnie Blaylock, tells the decades-long story of a fictional family of women dedicated to the historical harvesting of “byssus,” long keratin fibers produced by a particular type of mollusk found in abundance around the Italian island of Sardinia, where the story takes place. Blaylock will appear at Reading Rock Books in Dickson on April 2.
Thinking Of, Feeling With
In About, Above, Around: 50 Prepositions, Mark Mayer toys with the meanings of an overlooked part of speech to explore the dark corners and rarefied summits of human existence. Mayer will discuss the book at Novel in Memphis on March 30.
Deeper, Darker, Further
In Ruby Falls, the latest novel by Gin Phillips, eight people enter a Tennessee cave for a publicity stunt that does not go according to plan, and one winds up dead. Who among them is the murderer?
