AUTHOR EVENT | Carrie R Moore & Rickey Fayne | MAKE YOUR WAY HOME

AUTHOR EVENT | Carrie R Moore & Rickey Fayne | MAKE YOUR WAY HOME

Come join us for an exciting in-person event at Brave and Kind Books! Meet authors Carrie R Moore and Rickey Fayne as they they celebrate the release of Carrie's book, Make Your Way Home. Get ready for an evening filled with captivating stories and insightful conversations. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to connect with these talented authors!

In eleven stories that span Florida marshes, North Carolina mountains, and Southern metropolitan cities, Make Your Way Home follows Black men and women who grapple with the homes that have eluded them. A preteen pregnant alongside her mother refuses to let convention dictate who she names as the father of her child. Centuries after slavery separated his ancestors, a native Texan tries to win over the love of his life, despite the grip of a family curse. A young deaconess, who falls for a new church member, wonders what it means when God stops speaking to her. And at the very end of the South as we know it, two sisters seek to escape North to freedom, to promises of a more stable climate.

Artfully and precisely drawn, and steeped in place and history as it explores themes of belonging, inheritance, and deep intimacy, Carrie R. Moore's debut collection announces an extraordinary new talent in American fiction, inviting us all to examine how the past shapes our present--and how our present choices will echo for years to come.

Carrie R. Moore is the author of Make Your Way Home, a story collection exploring Black love and longing in the American South. Her fiction has appeared or is forthcoming in The Best American Short Stories, The Sewanee Review, One Story, Virginia Quarterly Review, and other publications. She earned her MFA in Fiction at the Michener Center for Writers, where she won the Keene Prize for Literature and was the inaugural fellow at the Steinbeck Writers’ Retreat. Born in Georgia, she currently resides in Texas with her husband.Rickey Fayne is a fiction writer from rural West Tennessee whose work has appeared in the New York Times, American Short Fiction, Guernica, The Sewanee Review, and The Kenyon Review, among other magazines. He holds an MA in English from Northwestern University and an MFA in Fiction from the Michener Center for Writers at the University of Texas. His writing embodies his Black, Southern, over-churched upbringing in order to reimagine and honor his ancestors' experiences. He has received support for his writing from Tin House, Community of Writers, Kimbillio, Sewanee, Yaddo, Willapa Bay, and MacDowell. Currently, he teaches fiction writing at the University of Wisconsin, Madison.

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