Debut Novelist Hannah Thurman at Quail Ridge Books
Tickets include a copy of Mercy Hill, guaranteed entry to the event, and a seat in the reserved section. Hannah will sign books after the program. All live author events are subject to change.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A debut family novel about four sisters growing up on the campus of the underfunded state mental hospital where their strong-willed mother serves as head of psychiatry. A richly moving story of sisterhood, loyalty, and mental health in America.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
HANNAH THURMAN is a Brooklyn-based writer originally from Raleigh. She was recently named a 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction. The winner of the Florida Review’s 2023 Editor’s Prize for Fiction, her stories have been published in The Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Brooklyn Rail and Southern Indiana Review, among others. She has been chosen for residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. This is her first novel.
Tickets include a copy of Mercy Hill, guaranteed entry to the event, and a seat in the reserved section. Hannah will sign books after the program. All live author events are subject to change.
ABOUT THE BOOK
A debut family novel about four sisters growing up on the campus of the underfunded state mental hospital where their strong-willed mother serves as head of psychiatry. A richly moving story of sisterhood, loyalty, and mental health in America.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
HANNAH THURMAN is a Brooklyn-based writer originally from Raleigh. She was recently named a 2024 NYSCA/NYFA Artist Fellow in Fiction. The winner of the Florida Review’s 2023 Editor’s Prize for Fiction, her stories have been published in The Iowa Review, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Brooklyn Rail and Southern Indiana Review, among others. She has been chosen for residencies at Yaddo, Ragdale, Vermont Studio Center and Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. This is her first novel.
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