- Location(s): Charlotte, North Carolina
- Genre(s): Fiction, Humour
- Era(s): early 2000s
Jerene Jarvis Johnston and her husband Duke are exemplars of Charlotte, North Carolina’s high society, where old Southern money—and older Southern secrets—meet the new wealth of bankers, boom-era speculators, and carpetbagging social climbers. Steely and implacable, Jerene presides over...
- Location(s): Oxford
- Genre(s): Fiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Ada is a widowed writer, navigating loneliness in Oxford after the death of her husband. She has no children. No grandchildren. She fears she is becoming peripheral, another invisible woman. Eliza is a student at the university. She finds...
Looking For Ireland: An Irish-Appalachian Pilgrimage
- Location(s): Ireland, Appalachian Mountains
- Genre(s): Travelogue, Nonfiction
- Era(s): Contemporary
Journey from Appalachia to Ireland in Looking For Ireland: An Irish-Appalachian Pilgrimage. Both chapbook and a work of art, her book creates a seamless alchemy of elegant poems and stunning photographs. “In one of the poems in her luminous...
- Location(s): Norwich
- Genre(s): Young Adult
- Era(s): Contemporary
Looking for Lucie is a contemporary YA novel that explores identity, self-discovery, and newfound friendship as an 18-year-old girl sets out to uncover her ethnic heritage and family history. “Where are you really from?” It’s a question every brown...