Recommendations

By LYN ROBERTS General Manager, Square Books

Stalking Shakespeare: A Memoir of Madness, Murder, and My Search For The Poet Beneath The Paint, by Lee Durkee {Lafayette County resident}

The author, most recently, of THE LAST TAXI DRIVER, the story of one crazy day in the life of a driver in Oxford, Stalking Shakespeare is Lee Durkee’s fascinating memoir about a hobby gone awry, the 400-year-old myriad portraits attached to the famous playwright, and Durkee’s own unrelenting search for a lost picture of the Bard painted from real life.

Salvage This World, by Michael Farris Smith

The newest novel, Salvage This World, from Michael Farris Smith, the author of six previous books, is a return to the setting of his second, Rivers. At once elegiac and profound, Salvage This World journeys into the heart of a region growing darker and less forgiving, and asks how we keep going—what do we hold onto—in a land where God has fled. Michael Farris Smith, a resident of Oxford, also has forthcoming a feature film adaption of his novel The Fighter, Rumble Through the Dark, starring Aaron Eckhart, set to premiere in late summer.

We Are A Haunting, by Tyriek White

A debut from a recent graduate of the MFA program in Creative Writing at the University of Mississippi, Tyriek White, We Are a Haunting follows three generations of a working class family and their inherited ghosts: a story of hope and transformation. For readers of Jesmyn Ward and Jamel Brinkley, White’s first novel is poignant and powerful and promises a bright literary career.

Hang The Moon, by Jeannette Walls

From Jeannette Walls, the #1 New York Times bestselling author of The Glass Castle, comes a riveting new novel about an indomitable young woman in Virginia during Prohibition.

The Trackers, by Charles Frazier

In The Trackers, singular American writer Charles Frazier conjures up the lives of everyday people during an extraordinary period of history that bears uncanny resemblance to our own. With the keen perceptions of humanity and transcendent storytelling that have made him beloved for decades, Frazier has created a powerful and timeless new classic.

Don’t Tell Anybody The Secrets I Told You: A Memoir, by Lucinda Williams

The iconic singer-songwriter and three-time Grammy winner opens up about her traumatic childhood in the Deep South, her years of being overlooked in the music industry, and the stories that inspired her enduring songs.