Fall is finally here, which means crisp days and long nights perfect for reading. Here’s a stack of Southern books — some new and some not — to carry you over into the changing of the seasons.
“Matrix” — Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff’s newest and highly anticipated novel is unlike anything she’s written before. Set in medieval Europe, a teenage Marie de France is cast out by the royal court and sent to spend the rest of her days in an impoverished abbey. “Matrix” (which means mother in Latin) follows Marie as she adjusts to collective life among the nuns and channels her anger into her vision of female utopia.
“When Ghosts Come Home” — Wiley Cash
North Carolina native Wiley Cash returns with a murder mystery about Winston Barnes, a small-town sheriff with a tragic past who discovers a crashed plane and a dead body in the middle of the night. Everyone is a suspect, including the dead man, as Winston investigates the case and racial tensions boil to the surface.
“Graceland, At Last” — Margaret Renkl
New York Times columnist Margaret Renkl writes about the complexities of her homeland in a collection of op-eds highlighting Southerners who are fighting for a better future for the region. They include a group of teens organizing a march for Black Lives Matter, an urban shepherd whose sheep eat invasive vegetation and a nonprofit that pairs songwriters with wounded soldiers.
“The Parted Earth” — Anjali Enjeti
A multi-generational saga, this debut novel follows the lives of three women whose family history is shattered by the Partition of India. In 1947 in New Delhi, 16-year-old Deepa wrestles with the changing political landscape leading up to the birth of the Muslim majority nation of Pakistan and the Hindu majority nation of India. In present-day Atlanta, Deepa’s granddaughter Shan searches for her estranged grandmother while grieving from a miscarriage.
“The Sweetness of Water” — Nathan Harris
Technically, Nathan Harris isn’t a Southern author, but his novel is set in Georgia at the end of the Civil War as Union troops are enforcing emancipation throughout the South. Against this backdrop, freed brothers Prentiss and Landry seek refuge on the homestead of a farmer reeling from the loss of his only son, who was killed in the war. When the brothers are hired to work the farm, an unlikely bond forms between the three men.
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