by J.C. Sasser | Apr 20, 2019 | Books
Yesterday, my sons and I picked strawberries out of Mr. Rhett King’s strawberry field. TC, my eldest, asked, “Mama, why do they call them strawberries?” “That’s a great question. I don’t know.” “You’d probably have to go all the way back to the eighties to figure that...
by J.C. Sasser | Apr 14, 2019 | Books
I’ve always wanted to read this book because I’ve always been drawn to the sinister and otherworldly beauty of its cover. Its insides are no different. . . . “I think this delicate tightrope walk between the real and the sense of something beyond the...
by J.C. Sasser | Mar 31, 2019 | Books
This novella won the 2018 Shirley Jackson award for Best Novella and was nominated for the 2017 Lambda Award. It’s good to know I’m not the only one who believes this novella is brilliant. I’ve never read anything like it. The Lost Daughter Collective interrogates the...
by J.C. Sasser | Mar 25, 2019 | Books
I joined Facebook in September 2009. I had an alias, my dogs, Moses and Blue Sasser. I posted a couple of pictures of them and they acquired a few feline friends. The account remained dormant for roughly eight years. I became ACTIVE on Facebook in March of 2017. My...
by J.C. Sasser | Mar 14, 2019 | Books
I discovered Julia Elliott in bed. It was late, the winter of 2015, and I was on a quest to find the end of the internet. My search landed me on a book review in the New York Times. ‘The New and Improved Romie Futch’ by Julia Elliott. Beneath the headline sat a...
