Join us as we welcome SUSAN GREGG GILMORE in conversation with BELINDA SMITH and ELLIE NORRIS on TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2 at 6:00 PM to celebrate the release of her new novel THE CURIOUS CASE OF LEONARD BUSH.
ABOUT THE BOOK:
Young Leonard Bush buries his lost leg and saves his whole East Tennessee town in this winsome and miracle-making novel. When twelve-year-old Leonard Bush loses his leg in a freak accident, he decides to give his leg a proper burial in the hilltop cemetery of his East Tennessee town. This event somehow sets off a chain of miraculous and catastrophic events-upending the lives of Leonard's rigidly God-fearing mother, June; his deeply conflicted father, Emmett; and his best friend, Azalea, and her mother, Rose, who is also the town prostitute. While the local Baptist minister passes judgment on events and promises dire consequences, the people of this small community on the banks of Big Sugar move together toward awakening. Susan Gilmore's love of storytelling flows naturally from her Tennessee roots. She's the daughter of a revival preacher's son, brought up on the land and streams that populate this novel that is, as Appalachian novelist Lee Smith says, a "homespun Pilgrim's Progress.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR:
Susan Gregg Gilmore is the author of the novels The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, and The Funeral Dress. She has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor. Born in Nashville, she lives in Tennessee with her husband.
ABOUT THE CONVERSATION PARTNERS:
Belinda Smith is a Dove Award winning songwriter based in Nashville, TN. Hailing from the State of West Virginia, she has garnered three BMI awards and has written songs which have appeared on three Grammy nominated records.
Ellie Norris lives with her husband and two children on a multigenerational family farm outside of Memphis, Tennessee. Ellie has recently completed her first novel which explores the evolution of Southern-female identity. Her work has been published in Scary Mommy, Kidspot Australia, The Signal Mountain Newspaper, Alys Gazette, and the Today Show parenting community platform.
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