Author: Zackary Vernon
Date/Time: Tuesday 06/11/2024 at 11:00 AM
Book: Our Bodies Electric
Synopsis: Welcome home a native son … graduate of Waccamaw High School and a precocious art, lit and film student who used to visit the chocolate shop next door to Art Works when it was home to the Moveable Feast and so much more for 20+ years. These days, Zackary Vernon is a writer and scholar based in Boone, NC, an Associate Professor of English at Appalachian State University. His work has appeared in a range of magazines and journals, including "The Bitter Southerner," "Carolina Quarterly," and "Southern Cultures," and he received the Alex Albright Creative Nonfiction Prize from the "North Carolina Literary Review." In his debut novel, a Southern teenager struggles to understand his gender and sexuality amongst a conservative, religious family, but he finds comfort in the writings of Walt Whitman and support from a cast of eccentric small-town characters. Our Bodies Electric is a coming-of-age story (“Poignant and comic,” says Ron Rash, the acknowledged arbiter of quality Southern writing) that celebrates the exuberance of youth, the individual quest for sexual identity, and the joy of finding connections in the most unexpected of places.
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