Amy Franklin-Willis

A Winter/Spring 2012 Turnrow 20 selection

With enormous heart and dazzling agility, Amy Franklin-Willis expertly mines the fault lines in one Southern working-class family. Driven by the soulful voices of forty-two-year-old Ezekiel Cooper and his mother, Lillian, The Lost Saints of Tennessee journeys from the 1940s to 1980s as it follows Zeke's evolution from anointed son, to honorable sibling, to unhinged middle-aged man.

A Turnrow 20 title for winter 2012. Read our review at the Rhythm & Books blog.

Signed first editions.