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by Andrew Hedglin

I’ve really loved football for about sixteen years, ever since my family took me to see my first New Orleans Saints game. But despite this abiding passion for the game, I don’t always completely understand it. I never played myself in any organized competition. I do know the rules and rhythms of the game, which I’ve come by through years of experience watching high school, college, and pro games. But I’m always looking to further understand what I’m seeing, especially through the best way I learn anything—through an engaging story.

perfect-pass In The Perfect Pass, the story of the Air Raid offense’s development, S.C. Gwynne (author of Rebel Yell and the Pulitzer-nominated Empire of the Summer Moon) takes the time to explain football concepts both technically and philosophically—without making the book a slog. And the reader never feels dumb—the story’s protagonist is coach Hal Mumme (along with his protégé Mike Leach) learning one thing after another about the offensive vision they are trying to realize. It’s about exploiting blind spots in other coach’s thinking by defying traditional wisdom. The story, at the core, is a love letter to the forward pass.

Although Mumme, the hero in this odyssey from Copperas Cover High School to Iowa Wesleyan College to Valdosta State University, didn’t develop one single, unstoppable play (as the title may suggest), he did synthesize a bunch of cutting edge offenses—the run-and-shoot, the West Coast offense, BYU’s spectacular 1980s passing attack—to simplify things for his own players while simultaneously complicating things for his opponents. It’s a system that didn’t rely on uniquely talented star players, even the quarterbacks from Dustin Dewald to Chris Hatcher to Tim Couch who make it all work. In fact, its influence has outpaced the coaches who synthesized, practiced, and advocated for it.

Mike Leach took the Air Raid to Texas Tech, with years of consistently good football that apexes with this incredible Michael Crabtree catch to beat #1 Texas in 2008. Now, Leach is scratching his way around mediocrity with Washington State in the Pac-12.

blazers Hal Mumme at one point was head coach at Kentucky and once upset the mighty Alabama Crimson Tide. Now, he coaches at my beloved alma mater, Belhaven University, a Christian liberal arts college here in Jackson with an arts emphasis and little in the way of a football heritage—yet. The influence of the Air Raid is felt with the increase of passing in the NFL down to the ubiquity of 7-on-7 camps for high school recruits.

Really, The Perfect Pass is a story like you would find in many other genres of nonfiction—business, history, art. It’s a story of success, influence, and revolutionary thinking. And Gwynne moves the prose along with the tempo of the Air Raid offense itself. If you’re interested in seeing the development of the games within the game, and having a better appreciation for air-based attacks in football, be sure not to pass up The Perfect Pass.

Mystery Without Meat: ‘The Vegetarian’ by Han Kang

By Former Lemurians

On October 5, 2016

In Foreign Fiction

By Katie Magee

So, back in July, Maggie Smith put this book on the counter with a note on it that said, “Katie, I think you would like this. Read it and let me know what you think.” Well, it got lost in the books that get shuffled along Lemuria’s counter daily, but I found it about two weeks later in another stack. But, she was right.

A story told through three different viewpoints, The Vegetarian by Han Kang is an eerie tale of a family member gone astray, starting when she spontaneously decides to become a vegetarian. In Yeong-hye’s South Korean family, meat is the staple in most meals, so when she decides to stop eating it, chaos breaks out. As she grows skinnier, her family grows worried. Part one of this book is told from the point-of-view of Yeong-hye’s husband, who is most directly affected by his wife’s vegetarianism, because she will not even allow meat in the house. Part two is narrated by Yeong-hye’s brother-in-law, a videographer, who wants Yeong-hye to be in his next piece starring two naked people painted in flowers, with an emphasis on Yeong-hye’s Mongolian mark. In part three, we hear of Yeong-hye’s downward spiral through the only remaining family member who will still talk to her, her sister.

This is a story of social isolation–simply because of one’s beliefs, of one’s eating habits. Not many books have touched me the way this one has, have made me question my own life and my surroundings. Throughout the story, one gets the idea that Yeong-hye wants to stray as far away from humanity as possible. She is fed up with the conventional ways of living one’s life, so she decides to pave her own way. Few people try to understand why she is doing this, leading to her isolation and loneliness, two things Yeong-hye does not seem too distraught by. As her brother-in-law says, “Or perhaps it was simply that things were happening insider her, terrible things, which no one else could even guess at, and thus it was impossible for her to engage with everyday life at the same time.”

Intrigued by Yeong-hye’s mysterious yet simplistic and controversial ways of living, I could not stop wanting to learn more about her, and still wish I knew more. Thanks, Maggie, for helping inspire my wonder.

Freaky Friday: ‘The Voyeur’s Motel’ by Gay Talese

By Hillary

On September 30, 2016

In Culture, Nonfiction, Sex, True Crime

voyeurs-motel Before I just dive right into my thoughts on this book, let me share with you a piece from the cover flap of Gay Talese’s book The Voyeur’s Motel:

“On January 7, 1980, in the run-up to the publication of his landmark bestseller Thy Neighbor’s Wife, Gay Talese received an anonymous letter from a man in Colorado. “Since learning of your long awaited study of coast-to-coast sex in America,” the letter began, “I feel I have important information that I could contribute to its contents or to contents of a future book.”

This anonymous letter was written by Gerald Foos, a motel owner in Denver, Colorado. What Foos went on to explain to Talese was pretty astonishing: Foos had purchased this motel to satisfy his voyeuristic desires and had built an “observation platform” underneath the roof of his motel. He installed “vents” near the foot of the bed into motel rooms in order to watch and listen to his guests. Foos writes, “The advantageous placement of the vent will permit an excellent opportunity to viewing and also hearing discussions of the individual subjects.”

Gerald Foos kept journals for around 15 years (between 1960-1980) and included almost every detail that he found important or interesting. Yes, there is quite a bit of detailed information dealing with sexual encounters of Foos’s unknowing guests. But, Foos really seemed to think of himself as a researcher of American society and sexuality.

He gathered statistics on different matters, such as the effects of the Vietnam War on sexual relationships, or relationships in general. The motel was located near a type of “half-way house” for men who had just arrived back injured from Vietnam. There were a few occasions when Foos witnessed and recorded men who were either paralyzed or had lost a limb in the war, and that injury’s effects on their sexual encounters with either wives or lovers.

Foos recorded the effects of the desegregation of American society in these relationships, as well. He noted that, before the late 60s and early 70s, white women would wait in the car for their African American counterpart to just grab the keys, and would not go inside together. Later, both subjects would enter together and go to the front desk to check in.

I wish I could tell you more about some of the encounters Gerald Foos recorded in his journals…but I don’t think they are very appropriate for this blog. What I will say is that Gerald seemed to think that the movie Deep Throat had to do with the rise in his guests participating in one particular sex act and that men of the 1960s foos-files weren’t great at sex, and could really care less if their wives were satisfied–gender roles at their finest.

The Voyeur’s Motel is an amazing work of narrative journalism which I could not put down. The majority of this book is from Foos’ actual journals and notes which were extremely fascinating. But….what a freak…right? Right? I can’t decide. Everyone is curious, but Gerald Foos took it to the extreme, and I thank him for it.

Another Award for ‘Another Brooklyn’ Author Jacqueline Woodson

By Former Lemurians

On September 27, 2016

In Fiction

by Abbie Walker

Jacqueline Woodson won the 2014 National Book Award for her young adult novel Brown Girl Dreaming and has been a finalist for several others. Since Woodson’s new novel for adults Another Brooklyn was recently long-listed for the 2016 National Book Award, I thought I’d share with you just what this book is about and why you need to pick it up.

Another Brooklyn is one of those books that you remember in flashes—quick images that come together to form a feeling that sticks with you. In fact, that’s how Jacqueline Woodson constructs this novel about a black girl growing up in 1970s Brooklyn: through a series of memories.

Like stills from a roll of film, Woodson tells the story of August, both as the young girl who has moved to New York with her father and brother, as well as the anthropologist she later becomes, reflecting on her life. Jumping back and forth in time, August recalls the days on the streets of Brooklyn with her friends Sylvia, Angela, and Gigi. The four of them are rarely seen apart, each girl with her own dreams and desires, her own struggle of pain and loss.

The story revolves around the group growing up together, trying to navigate a world where drug addicts sleep in the hallways of their apartments and men try to grab them on the street. The four girls walk down the sidewalk with their arms linked together, not just as a show of friendship, but as a way of arming themselves against the threats around them. The girls pretend they are living in a glamorous Brooklyn, one that will make them famous and give them better futures than their parents. But they know there is another, more dangerous Brooklyn where they will need each other to survive.

“We had blades inside our kneesocks and were growing our nails long. We were learning to walk the Brooklyn streets as though we had always belonged to them—our voices loud, our laughter even louder. But Brooklyn had longer nails and sharper blades. Any strung-out soldier or ashy-kneed, hungry child could have told us this.”

Set against the backdrop of the New York blackout and news of the Biafran War, Another Brooklyn centers around the idea that a memory of an experience is just as important, if not more so, than the actual event.

I absolutely loved this novel and the almost stream-of-consciousness writing style. Woodson creates a vivid image of what it was like for a young girl of color growing up in a city that practically demanded her loss of innocence. She really makes you feel the fear and the reality of these girls’ worlds. I felt a love for each character, and Woodson has expertly weaved their stories together to tell the bigger story of what was happening during that time. This book is a quick, poetic read that I would recommend for anyone.

Woodson recently attended the Mississippi Book Festival, and Lemuria still has a few signed copies of Another Brooklyn left, so swing by and get one before they’re gone!

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Endurance in the Delta: ‘Trials of the Earth’ by Mary Mann Hamilton

By Hillary

On September 9, 2016

In Southern Culture, Southern History

unnamed-6 Mary Mann Hamilton was a remarkable women who was encouraged to write down her life as a female pioneer. Hamilton was born in 1866 and passed away in 1936. It was later in her life that she began to write down her experiences of “taming the American South”– she writes about living through floods, fires, tornadoes, and her husband’s drinking. An early draft of Trials of the Earth was submitted to a writers’ competition sponsored by Little, Brown in 1933, but, unfortunately, it was not chosen at the time. Now, eighty-three years later, Mary Mann Hamilton’s book is the only known first-hand account of a woman pioneering her way through the South.

Hamilton is a fierce woman that I found absolutely fascinating.
She starts her book off with the marriage to her husband, Frank, whom she only marries because he has promised to care for her younger siblings. She doesn’t know much about Frank, a mysterious Englishman, which is shown throughout the book, but they seem to get along well. Together, they start to run a logging camp where Hamilton alone cooks, morning and night, for an average of 70 men working for her husband. She does this while also raising her children, some of whom do not make it through the perils of pioneer life.

Hamilton at the logging camp

Hamilton spends the majority of her book writing about her time in the Mississippi Delta’s woods and marshlands, as well as the role she plays in clearing a path for future cotton farmers. Throughout this time in her life, she encounters a flood that completely washes away her home and the family’s logging camp, buries children, and deals with her husband’s secretive life and drinking problem.

Hamilton in her later years

As it says on the dust jacket: “The extreme hard work and tragedy Hamilton faced are eclipsed only by her emotional and physical strength; her unwavering faith in her husband… and her tenacious sense of adventure.”

For what small amount of education Hamilton had during her life, she has created a beautifully written book. I sat down to read ten pages before bed one night and ended up reading seventy. I couldn’t put it down.

Freedom in the Air: ‘Underground Airlines’ by Ben H. Winters

By Former Lemurians

On September 7, 2016

In Fiction

by Andrew Hedglin

I was mesmerized by the idea since I saw the cover on the front of the July Indie Next flyer: Underground Airlines in plain text over the half-obscured face of a black man. It encapsulated the concept of the novel so succinctly: slavery in the modern age, the Underground Railroad in the time of jet airliners.

Of course, just because a book has a cool concept does not mean that it is automatically a successful story. It has to be executed well. To show how a system works, you have to find the right human story within the system, and I think Ben Winters has chosen well.

The story is laid out as a classic detective story: a tortured detective with a woman problem is working a regular case when he discovers a conspiracy that goes…all the way…to the top. Here, our detective is Victor (a man of many identities), a former slave forced to work as a bounty hunter for the U.S. Marshals hunting other escaped slaves. He lives with the visage of freedom but struggles with the “duty” he is bound to and the evil it entails.

The woman is Martha, a white mother at his hotel alone with a bi-racial child. After Victor’s mild-mannered persona Jim shows her kindness, she gradually draws him into her quest for answers about the child’s father.

The case Victor is hunting is Jackdaw, an escaped slave from Garments of the Greater South, that draws an unusual amount of heat from his boss at the Marshal service. Victor searches for the truth as he infiltrates a cell of the Airlines in Indianapolis. (The Airlines remain as much a metaphor as the Railroad was, however.) He matches wits against an alternatively idealistic and pragmatic young priest, an undercover cop, and a West African enforcer; everybody uses each other to achieve their own goals.

While the three-dimensional characters are intriguing, the setting is the real show-stealer here: an alternative America that diverged a hundred years before when Abraham Lincoln was assassinated just prior to taking office. Slavery remains legal in a few states called the Hard Four: Louisiana, Alabama, Mississippi, and Carolina. While most of the country disapproves of the practice, it finds itself ensnared in a series of compromises as it tries to summon the political will to do anything about it. It’s fascinating to see how history bends, changing in some ways and remaining the same in others. For instance, the unstoppable forces of James Brown and Michael Jackson cannot seem to be contained in any version of history.

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Now, there is a caveat that feels important to mention: Winters, the author, is a white dude. I don’t know if it feels like cultural appropriation to tell such a story as a white person from a black person’s point of view. This book helped me consider not only the legacy of slavery in this country but also the issue of exploitative labor worldwide–all while removing the distancing factors of geography and history. But as fresh as some of these ideas seemed to me upon first meeting them, they are not new, and writers of colors are writing about them and have been writing about them, and I encourage you to read them as well.

Overall, though, Underground Airlines works as both a story and an idea. It keeps you turning pages and thinking at the same time. It’s a great end-of-summer read that mixes the escapism of summer with serious considerations of our time—as it was, as it might be, and as it is.

Get to Know Julia

By Former Lemurians

On August 3, 2016

In Get to Know...

Julia Before we start I’d like you to know I love lots of things, so this is going to include the word “love” approximately one hundred times.

How long have you worked at Lemuria? Almost two months.

What do you do at Lemuria? I am currently working in the fiction room. I am also starting to learn about the First Editions Club at Lemuria.

Talk to us what you’re reading right now. I just finished Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi, and, just as everyone else has, I absolutely LOVED it. I also read the June First Editions Pick, Miss Jane by Brad Watson. I’m working on three books right now: Mothering Sunday by Graham Swift, We Come to Our Senses by Odie Lindsey, and Dispatches from Pluto by Richard Grant. So far, I’m loving We Come to Our Senses and Mothering Sunday. My dad and I are passing Dispatches back and forth, so there’s no telling when I’ll finish, but so far it is a hilarious read and living up to its reputation for me.

What’s currently on your bedside table (book purgatory)? Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut (which apparently will never get finished), A Thousand Miles From Nowhere by John Gregory Brown, and The After Party by Anton Disclafani. Also, candy. Because I love candy.

How many books do you usually read at a time? Usually no more than two, but I’m being ambitious this summer and trying for three to four.

I know it’s difficult, but give us your current top five books. Oh, man…
Homegoing – Yaa Gyasi
The Descendants – Kaui Hart Hemmings
The Revolution of Little Girls – Blanche McCrary Boyd
Giovanni’s Room – James Baldwin (I had to include an all-time favorite)
Sleeping on Jupiter – Anuradha Roy

Favorite authors? I have so many… I love them all…
Edgar Allen Poe, F. Scott Fitzgerald, Jane Austen, Ernest Hemingway, William Faulkner, Blanche McCrary Boyd, James Baldwin, Maya Angelou, Kate Chopin, Edwidge Danticat, Chimamanda Ngozi Adichie, Robert Frost, Dylan Thomas, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Tennyson, T.S. Eliot, J.K. Rowling, Anuradha Roy, Suheir Hammad…
I love every author I’ve ever read, honestly. These are just some of my top favorites. We’d be here all day if I kept listing them!

Any particular genre that you’re especially in love with? Generally speaking, fiction is my favorite. More specifically, it’s a toss up between Southern Lit and Expats.

What did you do before you worked at Lemuria? I graduated from LSU in May, and my parents took my siblings and I to Hawaii, so basically I was crying on my couch because we couldn’t stay there forever.

If you could share lasagna with any author, dead or alive, who would it be? What would you ask them? This is also a hard question… I think right now I’d like to meet J.K. Rowling and ask, “what’s your secret?”

Why do you like working at Lemuria? I really love literature. I love talking about literature, reading it, and writing about it.

If we could have any living author visit the store and do a reading, who would you want to come? There’s quite a few authors I’d like to hear read, but I’d probably go with Suheir Hammad, because listening to her read her poetry is life-changing.

If Lemuria could have ANY pet (mythical or real), what do you think it should be? A phoenix because they are awesome and Dumbledore had one.

If you had the ability to teleport, where would you go first? Probably Paris, France, and then Hawaii. Then back and forth until I decided which I loved more.

The Big Uneasy: ‘A Thousand Miles from Nowhere’ and ‘The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear’

By Former Lemurians

On August 1, 2016

In Fiction, Politics

by Andrew Hedglin

I just read two New Orleans-based books that both came out on June 28 and seem to rhyme with each other in peculiar ways: Stuart Stevens’ political dark comedy The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear and John Gregory Brown’s post-Katrina meditation on mental illness A Thousand Miles from Nowhere. The idea of the Big Easy, or the City that Care Forgot, has always been sort of an illusory front for tourists passing through New Orleans. Those names are designed to conjure up images of Mardi Gras floats, Dixieland jazz, football games, and copious amounts of alcohol.

thousand miles from nowhere But if you live there, the pressures of the quotidian grind and the sum of your life choices catch up with you, just like everywhere else. If that’s where your problems have come to a head, the quietest, sleepiest city in North America will feel like a welcome escape, which is exactly the situation that Henry Garrett, the unwell protagonist of Brown’s A Thousand Miles from Nowhere finds himself in.

Garrett escapes Hurricane Katrina in a daze. When he arrives in Marimore, Virginia, everybody correctly surmises that he has just lost everything but misdiagnoses the cause to the hurricane. In reality, an inherited mental illness Henry just describes as the “clatter” (and his wife’s miscarried pregnancy) has caused him to quit his teaching job, alienate his wife, and blow through his inheritance on an abandoned grocery store (which is now probably flooded).

If that isn’t bad enough, Henry runs over a convict on a work line who rushes out into the middle of the road so that his family can collect a death pension from the state. On the other hand, Henry is also the recipient of copious amounts of grace from everybody from Latangi, the widowed Indian proprietress of his motel, to Marge, the hard-charging judge’s clerk and head of a local church’s women group. While Henry is, to borrow a famous New Orleans phrase, “depending[ing] on the kindness of strangers,” he begins to look outward. He attempts, however brokenly, to help the widow of the man he hit and an old friend, who looks trapped in his New Orleans grocery store.

Jacket (1) Instead of exiting New Orleans mid-breakdown, J.D. Callahan, the protagonist of The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear, reluctantly marches right back into it. He is there for the 2020 Republican National Convention, where he is trying to squeeze a moderate underdog candidate Hilda Smith into the nomination against nationalist Armstrong George (a thinly veiled, even tamped-down, satire of Donald Trump). His own breakdown revolved around a bad break-up from a news anchor girlfriend and a crack-up on Meet the Press. That might seem like a small obstacle compared to Henry Garrett’s, but the scrutiny of politics has a way of raising the stakes. It doesn’t help that the city and convention is already tense from a series of non-fatal bombings around town in the previous few days.

J.D. Callahan shares a snarky disdain for New Orleans culture, shaped surely by Stevens’ own opinions (as sampled earlier in Stevens’ beautiful, lyrical football memoir, The Last Season). Yet underneath this disdain runs a reluctant affection, just as much for the city as for his screwed-up Callahan family that caused J.D. to leave New Orleans in the first place. It’s the same family, however, that comes to his rescue when the political establishment tries to cast him out again.

Henry Garrett and J.D. certainly have many cares that the City that Care Forgot incubates, or exacerbates, or perhaps simply spectates, but these novels are ultimately about redemption. That redemption is hard-won and nurtured by care from the people around them, but realized by a determination to see themselves throughout. Because, even if you start or end in a place called the Big Easy, wherever you go, as they say, there you are.

Signed copies of John Gregory Brown’s A Thousand Miles from Nowhere are available through our web store here. Stuart Stevens will be a panelist at the Mississippi Book Festival at the State Capitol Building on August 20, for Sports and Outdoors at 3:00 and The Presidential Year at 4:15.

SARAH J. MAAS is coming to Jackson!!!!!

By Former Lemurians

On July 15, 2016

In OZ: Young Adult Fiction

by Abbie Walker

So either you’re just as excited as I am and are dancing around in pure joy at the idea of getting to meet Sarah, or you’re wondering what all the fuss is about. Well, let me tell you why this is such a big deal.

Jacket Sarah J. Maas is a New York Times and USA Todaybestselling author of two amazing young adult fantasy series. As part of her tour for Empire of Storms, the newest installment in the Throne of Glass series, Sarah will be coming to Jackson this fall!

Throne of Glass centers around 18-year-old Celaena Sardothien, a well-known assassin who has spent the last year imprisoned in the salt mines of Endovier after she was caught for her crimes. When the king holds a competition to pick his new assassin, Prince Dorian agrees to free Celaena if she will be his champion for the contest. Competing with a hoard of twenty-three sponsored thieves and warriors gives Celaena a chance to show off her skills and earns her the interest of the prince and his captain of the guard. But when champions start turning up dead, the competition is the least of her worries. If she wants to become the king’s assassin and eventually earn her freedom, Celaena will have to not only survive, but win.

This is the series that got me into reading more fantasy. It starts off with a bang and gets more interesting with each book. It’s no surprise Sarah has been called the “Queen of YA Fantasy” by her legion of fans. Her world-building is creative and her characters are fun. Celaena in particular is a strong, independent heroine with a lot of sass, but she is also down-to-earth with her complicated past and teenage tendencies. I’ll admit I’m also a fan of the romance in these books. But if you think you know who’s ending up with whom, read on, because Sarah loves to hit readers with the unexpected. Each installment in this series is fresh and even better than the next. I love getting to meet new characters and explore new places within the complex world that Sarah has created. Not only is it an action-packed series filled with fighting, magic, and romance, but it also deals with issues such as class, power, friendship, and loss.

If I haven’t already convinced you to pick up these books, just do it! You won’t be disappointed. And you’ve still got plenty of time to binge this series before the release of the fifth book: Empire of Storms. Sarah will be here just two days after the book is released, so you can meet your new favorite author and get her new book signed at the same time!

CLICK HERE TO PURCHASE A TICKET FOR THE EVENT (WHICH INCLUDES A PRE-ORDERED COPY OF EMPIRE OF STORMS):

EVENT DETAILS:

When: Thursday, September 8 at 6 p.m.
Where: The Cedars—4145 Old Canton Road, Jackson, MS 39216

Things you need to know:
-Additional Sarah J. Maas books will be available for purchase at the event.
-The event will be outside on the back lawn. Bring lawn chairs and blankets. If it rains, the event will be inside.
-Line numbers will be given out when you exchange your ticket for a book.
-You must have a line number to enter the signing line—line will be capped at 250 people.
-You may bring a maximum of three (3) Sarah J. Maas books into the signing line to be signed (regardless of where they were purchased).
-Only one book may be personalized.
-Photography is allowed, but Sarah will not pose for photos.
-ABSOLUTELY NO VIDEO.

Questions? Call 601-366-7619

‘Hot Little Hands’ by Abigail Ulman

By Hillary

On June 27, 2016

In Fiction, Short Stories

Hot Little Hands is an awesome collection of short stories by Abigail Ulman. These stories span the lives of a few different adolescent girls and young women, ranging in age from thirteen to thirty. The lives of these women and girls are set in the US, the UK, Russia, and Australia. All of these stories are about girls trying to figure out how to navigate their way through life now that they are becoming an “adult,” whether this is in their teen years or late twenties. A lot of the stories deal with overcoming and understanding friendships, sex, innocence, love, shame, and attraction.

One story called “Warm Ups” is a complete gem and threw me for a loop. It still makes me shiver a little when I think of it. It is about a thirteen year old Russian gymnast who wants so badly to go to America to train for the Olympics. Her parents are hesitant at first, but finally give in and allow her to travel with her coach. Then…..you get that “oh, my God….holy shit. Wait, what?” moment at the end of the story. It’s perfect.

There is the right amount of seriousness and humor throughout this book, and I think most people are going to find a little bit of themselves in at least one of these stories/girls. These stories are going to take you back to those awkward years, those first boyfriend years, those years where you think you knew everything, and then you get into the years where you realize you’ve gotten older…..but you still don’t know what is going on in your life. Like, literally…you have no clue.

If you’re a fan of short-stories, dive right in to this one. It’s pretty sweet.

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Forward Momentum: ‘The Perfect Pass’ by S.C. Gwynne

Mystery Without Meat: ‘The Vegetarian’ by Han Kang

Freaky Friday: ‘The Voyeur’s Motel’ by Gay Talese

Another Award for ‘Another Brooklyn’ Author Jacqueline Woodson

Endurance in the Delta: ‘Trials of the Earth’ by Mary Mann Hamilton

Freedom in the Air: ‘Underground Airlines’ by Ben H. Winters

Get to Know Julia

The Big Uneasy: ‘A Thousand Miles from Nowhere’ and ‘The Innocent Have Nothing to Fear’

SARAH J. MAAS is coming to Jackson!!!!!

‘Hot Little Hands’ by Abigail Ulman

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