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Heartbreaker: A Memoir
Mike Campbell with Ari Sandoval
Another member of Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers graces our pages. Guitarist Mike Campbell details how painstakingly teaching himself to play a worn, old guitar as a teenager helped him cope with his family’s hardscrabble life in Jacksonville, Florida. From there he charts his often-grueling rise to becoming the lead guitarist and songwriting partner for Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, from the band’s inception in 1976 to Petty’s tragic death in 2017. Known for being reserved and private, Campbell opens up publicly for the first time to tell this “part rags-to-riches story and part raucous, seat-of-the-pants adventure.”
rekt
Alex Gonzalez
Sammy Dominguez, struggling to cope with the death of his girlfriend, receives a mysterious message with a link to a ‘dark web’ site with footage of her fatal accident and other violent deaths. Sammy becomes obsessed with the site and its shadowy, diabolical creator—and soon winds up in an escalating battle for his own sanity and maybe even his life. From the press release: “A disturbing examination of toxic masculinity and the darkest pits of the Internet, about a young man’s algorithmic descent into depravity in a future that’s nearly here.” Gonzalez’s pensive, layered prose elevates it into something more than just techno-horror.
Soaked: Stories
Toby LeBlanc
From Cornerstone Press: “One word describes Louisiana fifty years from now after climate change intensifies: Soaked. A nearly silent Cajun man is the last speaker of Louisiana French but doesn’t know what he is saying. A Vietnamese woman recovering from the trauma of war looks for home in a hurricane. A farmer gambles his inherited land on the best marijuana Louisiana has ever known. Laughing in the face of oblivion, lending a hand to the hopeless, adapting in spite of tragedy, and enduring when everything else is gone, is what the people of Louisiana, Toby LeBlanc’s people, do best.”
Behind the Waterline
Kionna Walker LeMalle
From the publisher description: “Winner of the Lee Smith Novel Prize, Behind the Waterline takes readers to the home of a teenager and his grandmother in a New Orleans neighborhood on the eve of Katrina, where there are few resources and little warning of what is about to happen, in this novel that mixes magical realism with reality. . . What he discovers inside will send him on a path to discover secrets to survival, bitter progress, and, ultimately, the history of his own people—those he sorely misses and those he never even knew.”
The Float Test
Lynn Steger Strong
Home for a sweltering Florida summer, the Kenner sisters grapple with the death of their mother, sibling feuds, their own personal crises, and decades of family secrets and betrayals, to revisit what it means to be a family and to claim a place as home. “What I loved most about The Float Test is the sense of place, and how the sticky, dense heat of Florida, the relentless sun, the flat roads ending at the ocean, is woven into the Kenner family’s DNA.”–Ann Napolitano, New York Times bestselling author of Hello Beautiful
Run for the Hills
Kevin Wilson
One day, 32-year-old Madeline Hill is visited by Reuben, a young man who turns out to be her half-brother, sharing a father neither knew well. He convinces her to join him on a roadtrip to meet all their other half-siblings, and of course discover more about their family and themselves in the process. “Infused with deadpan wit, zany hijinks, and enormous heart, Run for the Hills is a sibling story like no other—a novel about a family forged under the most unlikely circumstances and united by hope in an unknown future.” -Ecco Press