5/13/2023 0 Comments Lum by Libby Ware![]() ![]() A serial killer is stalking wealthy black entrepreneurs, inscribing a letter of the alphabet on each victim’s body. The Edgar Award–nominated Guinn sets this tense literary thriller on the eve of the 1881 International Cotton Exposition in Atlanta, where the city’s movers and shakers are nervous-and for good reason. ➸ Ware launches her novel on 10/28 at Charis Books. But an unexpected friendship with an ailing curmudgeon empowers her to take the first step, in men’s shoes, toward an independent and happy future. Lum, a 33-year-old intersex woman, has spent her entire life tending to her relatives’ children and chores. ![]() Ware’s gently rolling debut novel is set in the Shenandoah Valley during the Great Depression, as the impending construction of the Blue Ridge Parkway heralds earth-shaking changes for the region. ➸ Skibell reads from his book on 10/27 at the Margaret Mitchell House. “If you don’t tell that story, it disappears, and even if you do tell it, it might just disappear anyway.” “You arrive with nothing but a story to tell,” he writes. The brilliant novelist detours from fiction with this collection of 16 essays, which range from a throwaway riff about earworms to deeply moving, slyly funny meditations on the limits of memory, the meaning of ghosts, and the value of stories. By Joseph Skibell (Algonquin Books), available 10/27 ![]()
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