{"id":152251,"date":"2025-10-01T10:12:38","date_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:12:38","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/?p=152251"},"modified":"2025-10-01T10:12:39","modified_gmt":"2025-10-01T15:12:39","slug":"square-books-and-thacker-mountain-radio-hour-present-susan-gregg-gilmore-for-the-curious-calling-of-leonard-bush-thursday-october-2-2025-at-6-pm-at-the-powerhouse","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.thelocalvoice.net\/oxford\/square-books-and-thacker-mountain-radio-hour-present-susan-gregg-gilmore-for-the-curious-calling-of-leonard-bush-thursday-october-2-2025-at-6-pm-at-the-powerhouse\/","title":{"rendered":"Square Books and Thacker Mountain Radio Hour present Susan Gregg Gilmore for “The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush” Thursday, October 2, 2025 at 6 pm at The Powerhouse\u00a0"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Susan Gregg Gilmore will be joined by award-winning Nashville singer and songwriter Belinda Smith, who will be\u00a0 performing music that she’s written for Leonard.\u00a0<\/em><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

About the book <\/strong><\/h2>\n\n\n\n

When twelve-year-old Leonard Bush loses his leg in a freak accident, he\u00a0decides to give his leg a proper burial in the hilltop cemetery of his East\u00a0Tennessee town. This event somehow sets off a chain of miraculous and\u00a0catastrophic events–upending the lives of Leonard’s rigidly God-fearing\u00a0mother, June; his deeply conflicted father, Emmett; and his best friend,\u00a0Azalea, and her mother, Rose, who is also the town prostitute. While the\u00a0local Baptist minister passes judgment on events and promises dire\u00a0consequences, the people of this small community on the banks of Big\u00a0Sugar move together toward awakening.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Susan Gilmore’s love of storytelling flows naturally from her Tennessee\u00a0roots. She’s the daughter of a revival preacher’s son, brought up on the\u00a0land and streams that populate this novel that is, as Appalachian novelist\u00a0Lee Smith says, a “homespun Pilgrim’s Progress.”\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

About the author\u00a0<\/h2>\n\n\n\n

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<\/em>, and The Funeral Dress<\/em>. She has  written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press<\/em>, the Los Angeles Times <\/em>and the Christian Science Monitor<\/em>.  Born in Nashville, she lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with her husband. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n

The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush\u00a0<\/strong>
By Susan Gregg Gilmore\u00a0
$27.00\u00a0
Publisher: Blair\u00a0
ISBN: 9781958888551\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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