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Marlin Barton is the first recipient of the Capote Prize for short fiction. He teaches in the low-residency MFA program at Converse College in Spartanburg, South Carolina. He also teaches creative writing in a program for juvenile offenders called Writing Our Stories, created by the Alabama Writers’ Forum.

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A captivating third novel

His characters are never caricatures, and they reveal that the greatest mysteries of all lie within the human heart.

In Marlin Barton’s superb new novel, two men, one black, one white, find common cause in an attempt to understand their shared ancestor, Rafe Anderson, and the mysterious deaths of two of his newborn children.

But what makes Children of Dust most memorable is Barton’s refusal to simplify and judge.

Marlin Barton is one of our most underrated writers, and I hope this novel gains him the attention he’s long deserved.

Ron Rash
Author of Serena and In the Valley

Children of Dust shows how the unsettled questions from the past carry forward, creating searches for answers generations later

The breaks and turns give a vivid sense of how history is both made and survived.

Ravi Howard, Author of Driving the King and Like Trees, Walking, winner of the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence

With riveting prose, Barton proves he is a master storyteller

An immersive story that asks the hardest questions and answers them with powerful and propulsive historical fiction.

Patti Callahan, New York Times bestselling author of Becoming Mrs. Lewis and Surviving Savannah

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Blue Christmas Bones  By Carolyn Haines  Minotaur Books, 2024  Hardcover with dust jacket: $28.00  Genre: Fiction/Mystery & Detective/Cozy  Reviewed by Abby McGinn  Bestselling author Carolyn Haines offers a delightful novel full of Christmas and paranormal spirit in this recent addition to the Sarah Booth Delaney Mystery series.  Detective Sarah Booth Delaney, along with her agency partner Tinkie Bellchase Richmond and their friends Cece Dee Falcon and Millie Roberts, travel to Tupelo, Mississippi, for the annual Elvis Festival. The group of women are excited to compete in the amateur Elvis impersonator competition and have time to relax and unwind from their hectic schedules. Their partners and Tinkie’s infant Maylin will be joining them in a few days, so they intend to make the most of their time with just the girls.  However, after the theft of a 3-million-dollar replica belt, Sarah Booth and Tinkie are approached by the belt’s beautiful but entitled owner, Grace Land.  Grace insists that she hire them to find the belt. Sarah Booth and Tinkie are reluctant to accept a case during their vacation, [...]

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