The sun leaned for down bringing shade to the waterfront, begins Michele Moore s entrancing debut novel, harkening back to an era when the legendary fishermen of Charleston s Mosquito Fleet rowed miles offshore for their daily catch. With evocative dialect and remarkable prose, The Cigar Factory tells the story of two entwined families, both devout Catholics the white McGonegals and the African American Ravenels in the storied port city of Charleston, South Carolina, during the World Wars. Moore s novel follows the parallel lives of family matriarchs working on segregated floors of the...
The sun leaned for down bringing shade to the waterfront, begins Michele Moore s entrancing debut novel, harkening back to an era when the legendary f...
Deno Trakas's novel Messenger from Mystery features English graduate student Jason "Jay" Nichols, a third-generation Greek American who claims to be named after the heroic Argonaut leader despite an introspective and self-absorbed nature. On the cusp of his transition into adulthood and from student to teacher, Jay still lives primarily in his own thoughts and studies. Having been an activist in college, he considers himself knowledgeable about local and global politics, but when the Iranian hostage crisis begins while he is teaching students from Iran, he realizes that his...
Deno Trakas's novel Messenger from Mystery features English graduate student Jason "Jay" Nichols, a third-generation Greek American who clai...
The Ex-Suicide, Katherine Clark's fourth Mountain Brook novel, is a satirical comedy of manners about a prominent Alabama family living across the street from the Birmingham Country Club. The house happens to be where the writer Walker Percy lived as a child with his family until his father committed suicide in the attic with a shotgun. The only son of the current residents, Hamilton "Ham" Whitmire has several Ivy League degrees as well as a generous trust fund but is striving mainly to be an "ex-suicide," as defined by Percy's writings. As a result of Ham's intellectual aspirations...
The Ex-Suicide, Katherine Clark's fourth Mountain Brook novel, is a satirical comedy of manners about a prominent Alabama family living acro...
Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 1946 lynching of two black couples in Georgia from the perspectives of three characters - Bertrand Johnson, one of the victims; Noland Jacks, a presumed perpetrator; and Lonnie Henson, a witness to the murders as a ten-year-old boy.
Inspired by true events, The Vain Conversation reflects on the 1946 lynching of two black couples in Georgia from the perspectives of three characters...
Set in the early 1950s rural South, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest to find her ""mama bone"" after she is left to care for a boy who is not her own but instead is the product of an affair between her husband and her best friend and neighbour, a woman she calls ""Sister"".
Set in the early 1950s rural South, One Good Mama Bone chronicles Sarah Creamer's quest to find her ""mama bone"" after she is left to care for a boy ...