Iread Pages

Main Menu

  • Home
  • Magazine
  • Ebook
  • Dictionary
  • Novel

Iread Pages

Header Banner

Iread Pages

  • Home
  • Magazine
  • Ebook
  • Dictionary
  • Novel
Novel
Home›Novel›Author Kristine Anderson presents her new novel, “Crooked Truth” | New

Author Kristine Anderson presents her new novel, “Crooked Truth” | New

By Katrina G. Dibiase
May 30, 2022
0
0

Almost everyone benefits from a good oxymoron – jumbo shrimp, Civil War, family vacations or Greater Cleveland. Most oxymorons tend to be clever and funny, even if they’re not always completely accurate. They can also help tell a story.

Dr. Kristine Anderson’s novel, “Crooked Truth,” is such a title. And it perfectly captures the plot twists of his book with its surprise ending.

Anderson will be the Georgia Writers Museum’s “Meet the Author” presenter to be held Saturday, June 11 at 10 a.m. at the Grove Event Center, 252 Swint Ave SE, Milledgeville, GA 31062. This is the Central State’s Chapel. The event will take place on the lower level of the Fellowship Hall.

Following the presentation, attendees will have the choice of two tours of Central State by trolley, one at 11:30 a.m. and a second at 1:30 p.m. During downtime, guests can visit downtown Milledgeville for lunch or take a tour of the Old Governor’s Mansion, Sally Davis House or Andalusia.

The fee for the Book Talk is $8 per person to help cover costs; the book lecture plus trolley tour is $25 per person.

Anderson is an Atlanta-based writer, educator, and journalist. She got her doctorate. in Communicative Arts from Georgia State University, and worked as a freelance writer for national newspapers and magazines, and taught high school English. She works part-time at Kennesaw State University and Shorter College.

“Crooked Truth” is his first novel. The manuscript received the Ferrol Sams Award for Fiction. The book was also nominated for the Willie Morris 2021 Southern Fiction Award. Anderson was also nominated for Georgian Writer of the Year 2021.

Want a taste of this novel full of suspense? Fifteen-year-old Lucas Webster doesn’t mind working in the fields and cutting cotton on his grandfather’s farm in South Georgia, but he hates being stuck caring for his Uncle Robert.

Born with Down Syndrome, Robert is 10 years older than Lucas and follows Lucas around like a clumsy shadow. Lucas wants to get out of Crisscross and get rid of his childish uncle, but after his grandfather’s death in the spring of 1948, things change.

His grandmother retires in her grief and Alvin Earl, Robert’s half-brother, returns to run the farm with his guns and liquor supply. Lucas needs to become more than a reluctant keeper. Tough man, Alvin Earl plans to pull Lucas out of school to work on the farm full-time and send Robert to state asylum.

When a fatal shooting occurs late in the afternoon, Lucas must decide what to tell the sheriff. As he uncovers the ties that can destroy and bind a family, he cannot reveal what really happened to local authorities or anyone else.

If you love a good story that promises lots of surprises, you won’t want to miss this special event in this unique setting.

Related posts:

  1. Nobel laureate Wole Soyinka returns with new novel after nearly 50 years
  2. I’m writing an allegorical novel about alpaca herders and democracy
  3. Gayl Jones returns after 20 years with new novel – The Undefeated
  4. Writer Claremore writes novel in Oklahoma | Books

Categories

  • Dictionary
  • Ebook
  • Magazine
  • Novel

Recent Posts

  • Mitigating the enigma of e-books in libraries through legislative action in the United States
  • Northwestern BC First Nation Creates Dictionary to Save Witsuwit’en Language – Prince Rupert Northern View
  • Nell Zink Talks Southern California Novel ‘Avalon’ and How It Succeeded After Years of Ungrateful Hard Work | Entertainment
  • FlipHTML5 Convert PDF to eBook Online with Flippable Pages
  • Review: A slice-of-life novel both meaningless and profound

Archives

  • June 2022
  • May 2022
  • April 2022
  • March 2022
  • February 2022
  • January 2022
  • December 2021
  • November 2021
  • October 2021
  • September 2021
  • August 2021
  • July 2021
  • June 2021
  • May 2021
  • April 2021
  • March 2021
  • February 2021
  • January 2021
  • December 2020
  • November 2020
  • July 2020
  • June 2020
  • January 2020
  • February 2019
  • September 2017
  • Privacy Policy
  • Terms and Conditions