Quietly Determined
Margot Livesey’s The Road from Belhaven follows a gifted girl’s passage from child to adult. Livesey will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
Fiction
A Country of Purity
In Tell Me Everything, Strout unites her most famous and beloved characters — Lucy Barton, Olive Kitteridge, and Bob Burgess — in a haunting but nevertheless optimistic examination of the way we depend on stories to survive. Strout will appear at Montgomery Bell Academy in Nashville on September 12.
Variations on the Immigrant Life
In his debut story collection, There Is a Rio Grande in Heaven, Ruben Reyes Jr. uses a broad array of literary styles and emotional registers to capture the breadth of the immigrant experience. He will discuss the book at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
A Man of the Book
Set on and around Lookout Mountain, Jamie Quatro’s Two-Step Devil is a sharp-edged, tangy novel, layered with the region’s mysteries. Quatro will appear at The Granfalloon in Chattanooga on September 10, The Episcopal Church of the Ascension in Knoxville on September 20, and the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville on October 26-27.
Among the Lost
A missing 13-year-old girl at an Adirondack summer camp spurs an exploration of family dysfunction in Liz Moore’s The God of the Woods. Moore will appear at the 2024 Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, October 26-27.
The World According to Memory
Minrose Gwin’s bewitching novel, Beautiful Dreamers, covers a lot of ground: lost innocence and found strength, the gifts life takes away and the gifts it gives in return, the lies that hold you back and the lies you run toward. But most of all, it’s about a mother and a daughter and the connection that never lets you go.
