📣 Join us on Wednesday, July 17, 2024, via Zoom at 7 PM CST for an exclusive event featuring Ramona Reeves, author of the award-winning short story collection, It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories. Moderated by Cassandra Lane.
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📚 About It Falls Gently All Around and Other Stories:
Winner of the 2023 Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters, this debut collection of eleven linked stories introduces Babbie and Donnie, a thrice-divorced former call girl and a sobriety-challenged trucker turned yogi. Along with their community of exes, in-laws, and coworkers, Babbie and Donnie share a longing to reforge their lives in Mobile, Alabama, which bears its own share of tainted history. Told with humor and honesty, these stories remind us about the fallibility of being human and the resistance of some to change, as well as finding redemption in unlikely places.

🌵 Ramona Reeves is the winner of the Drue Heinz Literature Prize and the Sergio Troncoso Award for Best First Book of Fiction from the Texas Institute of Letters in 2022. She has been a fellow at the San Ysidro Writers Residency and a 2024 judge for the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in various literary journals, and she teaches a course for writers working on their first manuscripts.

🌵 Cassandra Lane is the winner of the Louise Meriwether First Book Prize and the author of the acclaimed memoir We Are Bridges, which NPR called "a stunning contribution to what must become our collective memory." She is the Editor-in-Chief of L.A. Parent magazine.

📢 Don't miss this event! Register now to reserve your spot and be part of a literary conversation that will leave you inspired! RSVP at The Big Texas Author Talk.