Twelve authors based in or near Western North Carolina celebrate Malaprop's 30th Anniversary with their contributions to the serial collaborative novel, Naked Came the Leaf Peeper. John P. McAfee, Susan Reinhardt, Vicki Lane, Tommy Hays, Wayne Caldwell, Fred Chappell, Alan Gratz, Annette Clapsaddle, Gene Cheek, and Linda Marie Barrett outdid themselves as they built upon a story arc brilliantly imagined in the first chapter by Brian Lee Knopp and brought to a laugh-out-loud finish by Tony Earley.
Hillary Jordan’s previous novel, Mudbound, was a staff and bookclub favorite. Her new book, When She Woke, an updated, dystopian take on The Scarlet Letter, has already been called “one of the best books of the year … an instant classic” by Publishers Weekly.