AUTHOR EVENT: Monic Ductan
Tue, Dec 12
|Plenty Downtown Bookshop
Celebrating the release of this beautiful new short story collection, "Daughters of Muscadine"
Time & Location
Dec 12, 2023, 5:00 PM – Dec 13, 2023, 6:00 PM
Plenty Downtown Bookshop, 48 W Broad St, Cookeville, TN 38501, USA
About the event
Monic is a very special person to us- she is a professor at Tennessee Tech, and has so kindly offered her time to lead most of our writers workshops since the very beginning of PLENTY. As one of the kindest people we've met, we are excited to celebrate with her the release of a beautiful new short story collection, Daughters of Muscadine.
Please join us in celebrating her at our author meet-and-greet at 5pm, followed by a brief reading from a selection of her work at 5:30.
ABOUT THE BOOK Two events tie together the nine stories in Monic Ductan's gorgeous debut: the 1920s lynching of Ida Pearl Crawley and the 1980s drowning of a high school basketball player, Lucy Boudreaux. Both forever shape the people and the place of Muscadine, Georgia, in the foothills of Appalachia.
The daughters of Muscadine are Black southern women who are, at times, outcasts due to their…