READING NATION MAGAZINE JULY 2021

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READING NATION MAGAZINE

The stories that make up Walking the Wrong Way Home are a mixture of humor, hard-won battles, and heart-breaking losses. In her debut collection, Mandy Haynes gives a voice to ordinary people and takes you inside their less than ordinary lives. Her love of storytelling shines bright and will have you cheering for saints, sinners, and everyone in between. Walking The Wrong Way Home takes you inside the extraordinary lives of ordinary people. Where hidden secrets are brought to light and burned with past regrets in brush piles in the mountains of East Tennessee or used to set fire to the mass produced tall and skinnies taking over East Nashville. Between the pages you’ll meet Penny, an eighty-seven year old widow who sleeps in her red shoes, Jimmy, a quiet auto mechanic whose memories are never silent, Jewel a young girl who sees beauty everywhere, even though she’s lost almost everything, and Willie, a thirteen-year-old who faces his worst fears only to find out that the truth is scarier than any haint or ghost story he’s ever imagined. There’s Elma and Roy, a couple who’ve been married for over forty years. Elma realizes on her sixty-third birthday that it’s not too late to live her life, but it takes Roy two weeks to notice. Spanning nearly twenty decades, the struggles and victories these characters face are timeless as they all work towards the same goal. A place to feel safe, a place to call home. Mandy Haynes has spent hours on barstools and riding in vans listening to outrageous tales from some of the best songwriters and storytellers in Nashville, Tennessee. She traded a stressful career as a pediatric cardiac sonographer for freedom and now lives in Fernandina Beach, Florida with her three dogs, one turtle, and a grateful liver. She is a contributing writer for Amelia Islander Magazine and author of two short story collections - Walking the Wrong Way Home which was a finalist for the Tartt Fiction Award, and Sharp as a Serpent’s 4 109 Tooth EvaISSUE andNO. Other Stories.


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If Our Pets Could Talk

1min
page 105

Authors and Their Art Kathy L. Murphy

3min
pages 68-77

The World Out There by John Talbird

1min
page 49

Killer at the Cimarron Social Club by Jennifer Mueller

1min
page 46

Ruby Falls by Deborah Goodrich Royce

1min
page 39

In Due Time by Annette G. Anders

1min
page 38

Sonju by Wondra Chang

1min
page 18

Dogwood Blues by Brenda Sutton Rose

1min
page 36

The Flying Cutterbucks by Kathleen Rodgers is now available as an Audiobook!

1min
page 24

What a Wonderful World This Could Be by Lee Zacharias

1min
page 19

Mistakes by the Lake by Brian Petkash

1min
page 25

The Kimono Tattoo by Rebecca Copeland

1min
page 31

Trouble Restored - Hot off the press June 28, the 13th Trouble, black cat mystery-penned by Trouble'

1min
page 30

Sisters of the Vine by Linda Rosen

1min
pages 34-35

Richard Paolinelli

1min
page 29

A Child Lost: A Henrietta and Inspector Howard Novel by Michelle Cox

1min
page 28

The Smuggler's Daughter by Claire Matturro

2min
pages 26-27

THE PULPWOOD QUEENS’ TIARA-WEARING, BOOK-SHARING GUIDE TO LIFE

1min
pages 94-99

Sometimes It Takes Three to Tango

5min
pages 86-92

A Whisper of Trouble by Susan Y. Tanner

1min
pages 32-33

MURDER UNDER A FULL MOON

2min
pages 22-23

Outbound Train

1min
pages 20-21

Walking the Wrong Way Home by Mandy Haynes

1min
pages 109-110

There’s Something about Those Pineywoods Tamra Bolton

3min
pages 10-13

Novel Women

3min
pages 4-5, 50-53

The Queen of Paris by Pamela Binnings Ewen

2min
pages 1-3

Outbound Train by Renea Winchester

1min
pages 1, 20-21, 102-103

READING NATION MAGAZINE

1min
pages 1, 7, 64, 77-78, 80, 85-86
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