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Two people who have spent their adult lives being looked at drive two hours south, separately, to a county where nobody knows either of them. They park outside a diner, climb down an embankment and sit on a boulder beside a creek the road cannot see. He has brought water and a blanket. She has […]

She has been in the forest for hours, deliberately walking the wrong way. There is a pull in her chest telling her where her dragon waits, and she has spent the afternoon refusing it, because her brother is dead and she would rather not survive the day. So she steps into the open, spreads her […]

A richly imagined coming-of-age tale that fuses science fiction, theology, and prophecy Science fiction has always been good at asking questions. What does it mean to be human? What happens when faith becomes certainty? How much freedom can an individual possess within a society built on absolute obedience? And, perhaps most importantly, what happens when […]

A heartbreaking but hopeful memoir of pain and reclamation in the wake of a female predator’s calculated abuse Documentary filmmaker Sophie Sartain’s memoir, She’s Next, impressed me so much that it’s going to be difficult to list its successes without sounding disingenuous. But stick with me. This thing is worth it. The subject matter alone […]

Somebody has taken a key to the metal of his locker and scratched a slur into it, deep enough that it will not come off and public enough that a crowd has gathered to point. He says nothing to the principal, having worked out by now that it is pointless. He goes home. and he […]

Witty, revealing, and a testament to the human impulses every individual shares Deeply personal and written in an inviting conversational tone, this memoir spans time and place. Much of the book’s setting is Claiborne County, a rural area where Tennessee borders Virginia and Kentucky.  Storytelling is the memoir’s heart. The initial chapter focuses on author […]

A multigenerational, multi-continental family saga that beautifully illustrates how home and the heart are one and the same Alice’s grandmother is dying, and Alice cannot speak of it—literally. This is how Alice Sees Ghosts by Daisy Rockwell opens: at an end. Alice has returned to the family home, Lilac Hill, to say goodbye to Nanette, […]