Hope, solstice, reading, more best book lists
Maud Newton’s year in reading. Ancestor Trouble’s best of 2022 mentions. The solstice and The Work of Hope.
Maud Newton’s year in reading. Ancestor Trouble’s best of 2022 mentions. The solstice and The Work of Hope.
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.
For the New York Times Magazine, I wrote a letter of recommendation for “y’all,” a word I shied away from in my youth as a transplant from Dallas to Miami and have since circled back to not once, but twice. Here’s an excerpt: Growing up in Miami, I dreaded being told that I sounded like a hick. In my teens, . . .
On the one hand, it feels a bit self-centered to catch you up on the praise for Ancestor Trouble since my last post in April, but on the other hand it would feel rude not to acknowledge people who put time into saying thoughtful things about the book. I am always and forever a Southerner-one-step-removed.
