Jesmyn Ward's excellent novel, Salvage the Bones, recently took home the National Book Award.  Ward, a Mississippi native, gave a nod to several bookstores in her home state during her acceptance speech for the award--check out a video of her speech on our blog here.  Salvage the Bones has garnered tons of excellent reviews and Jesmyn has been all over the place.  Read a review from the NY Times here, where Parul Sehgal says, "Salvage the Bones is a taut, wily novel, smartly plotted and voluptuosly written."  Ward mentions Square Books again (and fellow Mississippi indie Lemuria Books in Jackson) in a recent interview with the American Bookseller's Association. It's an excellent interview (see below for an excerpt of click here to read the entire interview).

FROM BOOKWEB'S BOOKSELLING THIS WEEK: 

BTW: What is your connection to Lemuria Books, Square Books, and Pass Christian Books?

Jesmyn Ward: I signed for the first time at Lemuria Books a few months ago, and I appreciated the fact that the bookstore does everything it can to be a community center for Jackson in the way that the best booksellers are. I love the folks at Square Books. Richard Howorth has been a great advocate for me and my writing, and he and his staff have worked very hard to introduce and include me in the literary community that surrounds Square Books. Visiting that bookstore feels like visiting family. And Pass Christian Books is also special to me because its owner, Scott Naugle, has also been a huge advocate for my writing and work, and like Richard, believed in me from the beginning. Pass Christian Books has a great story: they were wiped out by Hurricane Katrina, moved to another physical location in DeLisle for a short time, and now operate online only. They encountered hardship and survived. They’re scrappy fighters, and I love that.

Please read the rest of the interview here. 

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