Susan Gregg Gilmore will be joined by award-winning Nashville singer and songwriter Belinda Smith, who will be performing music that she’s written for Leonard.
About the book
When twelve-year-old Leonard Bush loses his leg in a freak accident, he decides to give his leg a proper burial in the hilltop cemetery of his East Tennessee town. This event somehow sets off a chain of miraculous and catastrophic events–upending the lives of Leonard’s rigidly God-fearing mother, June; his deeply conflicted father, Emmett; and his best friend, Azalea, and her mother, Rose, who is also the town prostitute. While the local Baptist minister passes judgment on events and promises dire consequences, the people of this small community on the banks of Big Sugar move together toward awakening.
Susan Gilmore’s love of storytelling flows naturally from her Tennessee roots. She’s the daughter of a revival preacher’s son, brought up on the land and streams that populate this novel that is, as Appalachian novelist Lee Smith says, a “homespun Pilgrim’s Progress.”
About the author
Susan Gregg Gilmore is the author of the novels The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, and The Funeral Dress. She has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor. Born in Nashville, she lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with her husband.
Belinda Smith is a Dove Award winning songwriter based in Nashville, TN. Hailing from the State of West Virginia, she has garnered three BMI awards and has written songs which have appeared on three Grammy nominated records.
The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush
By Susan Gregg Gilmore
$27.00
Publisher: Blair
ISBN: 9781958888551
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