WordPlay bookstore will host southern fiction author Susan Gregg Gilmore for an author talk and book signing on Saturday, November 1, at 4 PM, at a very special location: St Peter’s Lutheran Church, located right next to WordPlay at 60 West Main Street in Wardensville. Doors open at 3:30PM so attendees enjoy hymns and other sacred music performed on the church’s organ by local musician Patty Austin.
Faith and small-town church life are interwoven in Gilmore’s newest novel, The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush. The book centers around 12-year-old Leonard who loses his leg in a freak accident and decides to give his leg a proper burial in the hilltop cemetery of his East Tennessee town. This event somehow sets off a chain of miraculous and catastrophic happenings—upending the lives of Leonard’s rigidly God-fearing mother June, his deeply conflicted father Emmett, and his best friend Azalea and her mother Rose, who is also the town prostitute. While the local Baptist minister passes judgment on events and promises dire consequences, the people of this small community move together toward awakening.
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