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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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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.
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.
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The Road to Tender Hearts
The Road to Tender Hearts By Annie Hartnett Ballantine Books, 2025 Hardcover: $29.00 Genre: Fiction Reviewed by Edward Journey Annie Hartnett’s third novel, The Road to Tender Hearts, is a heartfelt tale of family dynamics and dysfunction. Whether intentional or not, the book’s jacket illustration brings to mind the 2006 movie, Little Miss Sunshine; the comparison is apt since both that film and this book explore the discoveries and travails of a family road trip. Hartnett’s story is generously woven, chronicling heartbreak and hilarity. PJ Halliday, the 63-year-old winner of a $1.5 million lottery a decade ago, lives in the small Massachusetts town of Pondville, just down the road from his ex-wife Ivy and her partner, Fred, who is PJ’s best friend and soon-to-be Ivy’s husband. Ivy and Fred look after PJ, who has breakfast with them every morning, reading morning papers in which Ivy has carefully excised any bad news about children and animals, which PJ can’t take. Ivy and PJ’s oldest daughter, Kate, died tragically on the night of her high school prom, a pain that PJ deals with by excessive drinking. Kate’s loss led to the dissolution of their marriage. Ivy and PJ’s surviving daughter, Sophie, is aloof, dealing with personal demons of her own. Two blocks away, two children, Ollie and Luna Mecklin, are orphaned in a murder-suicide, leading to the discovery that they are PJ’s grandnephew and grandniece by his [...]
