
Best Books of 2022: Garden & Gun & EW
Ancestor Trouble is named a best southern book of the year by Garden & Gun Magazine and a best of the year by Entertainment Weekly.
Ancestor Trouble is named a best southern book of the year by Garden & Gun Magazine and a best of the year by Entertainment Weekly.
Ancestor Trouble is a best book of 2022, according to The New Yorker, NPR, The Washington Post, Time, and Esquire. It was also a New York Times Editors’ Choice selection. Much gratitude to all the editors and critics who made these decisions and conferred these distinctions in a truly wonderful year for books.
If you are a writer struggling with the ethics of sharing your own history, remember that dragging these experiences out of hiding does not make you the harmful one.
My Writing About Ancestor Trouble class, announced recently, is full. The New Yorker named my book a best of 2022. An interview for Tricycle by Ann Tashi Slater.