Bibliography
The Books
The Almanac of Leaving
A family almanac, kept for six generations, predicts weather, harvests — and the exact year each family member will leave home for good. The seventh generation is the first to ask why anyone kept score.
Read an excerpt →The Quiet Line
When a cartographer inherits her estranged father’s unfinished survey of the coast, she finds the shoreline in his notebooks no longer matches the one on any map — and neither does her memory of the summer he disappeared.
More about this book →Salt and Static
Three sisters run the last commercial radio station on an island slated for evacuation. As the broadcast towers come down one by one, they take turns telling the story of how they got here — and who gets to decide when it ends.
More about this book →A Smaller Hunger
A debut collection of eleven stories about the appetites we’re taught to shrink — for food, for ambition, for leaving. Set in diners, tobacco barns, and the back seats of borrowed cars across the Piedmont.
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