We are thrilled to welcome Ellen Birkett Morris to our store! Join us and she will read, sign books and there will be wine! Kelly will be in conversation with Kelly Fordon.
About the book: Beware the Tall Grass explores the power of love and mercy with grace and artful sensitivity in a world where circumstances often occur far beyond our control. Ellen weaves the stories of the Sloans, a modern family grappling with their young son Charlie's troubling memories of a past life as a soldier in Vietnam, and Thomas Boone, a young man caught up in the drama of mid-sixties America who is sent to Vietnam.
About the author: Her novel Beware the Tall Grass is the winner of the Donald L. Jordan Award for Literary Excellence. Her fiction has appeared in Shenandoah, Antioch Review, Notre Dame Review, and South Carolina Review, among other journals. Morris is a recipient of an Al Smith Fellowship from the Kentucky Arts Council. Ellen is also the author of Lost Girls: Short Stories, winner of the Pencraft Award. In addition she is the author of Abide and Surrender, poetry chapbooks. Her essays have appeared in Newsweek, AARP's the Ethel, Oh Reader, and on National Public Radio.