Rachel M. Hanson: Reading & Signing

Tue Dec 03 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:00 pm UTC-05:00

Hub City Bookshop & Press | Spartanburg

Hub City Writers Project
Publisher/HostHub City Writers Project
Rachel M. Hanson: Reading & Signing
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Join us in welcoming Rachel M. Hanson for a reading and signing of her debut memoir The End of Tennesee.
About this Event

Join us in welcoming Rachel M. Hanson for a reading and signing of her debut memoir The End of Tennesee, "a haunting memoir of childhood trauma, building a life, and living with wounds that never heal." Hanson will be at Hub City Bookshop on Tuesday, December 3rd at 6:00 PM.

Get a 10% discount on the book when you present your Eventbrite RSVP at the bookshop register.



About the Book:

Southern Review of Books Best Southern Books of August 2024
"Not a year before I ran away from home at seventeen, I stepped out of the house at dusk, still able to see shrub oaks thinned out for winter, fame flower, too, and dun clay so wet the smell of it seemed settled in my skin." So begins Rachel M. Hanson's debut memoir about growing up impoverished, uneducated, and surrounded by violence. In lyrical, fragmented prose, she lays bare the impossible choice between self-preservation and her love for five younger siblings for whom she had become a second mother. As the years pass, Hanson struggles with guilt for leaving her siblings as she slowly realizes she could not save them. The End of Tennessee is a testament to a sister's love, resilience, and determination, a book for anyone who has left one life to create another.


About the Author:

Rachel M. Hanson is the author of The End of Tennessee: a memoir, and her writing can be found in Creative Nonfiction, The Iowa Review, and Joyland Magazine. She was a Grand Canyon river runner for many years, and is now an assistant professor at UNC Asheville. She resides in Asheville, North Carolina with her partner and their many animals.

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Hub City Bookshop & Press, 186 West Main Street, Spartanburg, United States

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