Celebrate IBD with Authors Bonnie Jo Campbell & Dawn Burns
Join A Novel Concept on Sat., April 27, to celebrate Indie Bookstore Day with National Book award finalist and Michigan author Bonnie Jo Campbell! Attendees can look forward to an engaging discussion with local author and MSU professor Dawn Burns featuring Campbell’s latest rural noir masterpiece, “The Waters,” followed by a Q&A session and book signing.
This brilliant novel has already received several large accolades, including the following mentions:
— Selected as the January Pick for the Today Show’s “Read With Jenna” Book Club
— Featured in the list of Oprah Daily’s “Best Books of 2024”
— Chosen for the CHICAGO REVIEW OF BOOKS “12 Must-Read Books of January 2024”
— Featured in Roxane Gay’s newsletter The Audacity as an anticipated book
Seating is limited for this event, so registration is required; the $10 registration fee also gets you 10% off “The Waters” when you show proof of registration at checkout.*
Register here: https://bit.ly/3J7epqb
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From the publisher:
A master of rural noir returns with a fierce, mesmerizing novel about exceptional women and the soul of a small town. On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp ― an area known as “The Waters” to the residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan ― herbalist Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful, Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three daughters. The youngest, beautiful and inscrutable Rose Thorn, has left her own daughter, eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook, to grow up wild. Donkey spends her days searching for truths in the lush landscape and in her math books, waiting for her wayward mother and longing for a father, unaware that family secrets, passionate love, and violent men will flood through the swamp and upend her idyllic childhood. With a “ruthless and precise eye for the details of the physical world” (New York Times Book Review), Bonnie Jo Campbell presents an elegant antidote to the dark side of masculinity, celebrating the resilience of nature and the brutality and sweetness of rural life.