Bøger af Shannon Yarbrough

A rape victim raising a biracial baby. A drug addict haunted by a dead girlfriend. A homosexual mourning a dead lover. A teacher having an affair with his student. And a businesswoman sexually harassed by her boss. What do they all have in common? They all sit at Lorraine White's holiday dinner table; they are also her children. But Lorraine's children are not the only ones in the family dealing with ghosts of the past. This is the first Christmas the Whites have spent together since the death of their father. And it very well could be their last, as arguments ensue, secrets are revealed, and perhaps a murderer walks among them. In his latest novel, Yarbrough explores the damaged soul of one small town family and breaks through the boundaries of love, convincing his readers that no matter how hard life gets, sometimes the support of family is the only true foundation we have left to depend upon - whether we want to or not.

Readers of Yarbrough's work will recognize Zoë, the passionate art dealer from his first book, "The Other Side of What" which was published in 2003. Now, sixteen years later, we find Zoë still in Memphis and still running her art shop, Hands Across The Board. But Zoë has lost her spirit and the shop has fallen on hard times. Will Zoë close the shop and seek a new direction? Zoë was always the advice-giver among her friends, but now she finds herself seeking counsel from her best friends, Seraphina and Matthew. Shannon never expected to write a follow-up story to any of the characters from "The Other Side." Zoë was originally based on one of his best friends from when he lived in Memphis in the late 90s. Back then when she learned he was going to write a book, she told him to put her in the book and name her Zoë. So that's just what he did. When that friend's daughter recently reached out to ask which of his books her mother appeared in, it made Shannon wonder where Zoë would be now. So, he sat down and started writing to find out. "Another Side of Zoë" shows how she has changed over the years, but also how she's remained a strong black woman with an unbreakable spirit in an ever-changing, and unstable world.

It's been eight years since readers first fell in love with a quirky coffee barista named Blaine in Shannon Yarbrough's second book, "Stealing Wishes." But what became of Blaine's tattooed, artsy coworker and love interest named Auden, who left Blaine for a teaching job in Savannah? In "Feeling Himself Forgotten," Yarbrough picks up Auden's story one year later. Auden realizes he misses Memphis and he misses Blaine even more. He decides to return to Memphis and hopefully pick up where he left off with Blaine and the coffee shop and everything else, but he soon discovers things aren't the same as when he left them. Auden's adventure gets even more interesting when the ghost of Tennessee Williams tags along! As Auden desperately searches for his friend, grasping for the life he once knew, the ghost of the infamous Southern playwright stands by to watch the drama unfold.

First Toby loses his job. Then his father dies. When Toby returns to his small hometown to bury him, he discovers evidence of a lifelong affair--a shameful secret Toby can't let go. But unraveling the truth leads him deep into a nest of intrigue, gossip--and murder.