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Today is pub day for @nancywdinan’s THINGS YOU WOULD KNOW IF YOU GREW UP AROUND HERE! Congratulations, Nancy!! 1/
We’re so excited for this one! @ALA_Booklist calls THINGS YOU WOULD KNOW a “strange brew of a book…shot through with magical realism, and undergirded by a naturalist’s concern for Mother Earth—and all wrapped in lovely sentences” in a 
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. @KirkusReviews says it is “By turns magical, harshly realistic, poetic, aggravating, and enthralling.” 3/ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/nancy-wayson-dinan/things-you-would-know-if-you-grew-up-around-here/">https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-revi...
Over at @paperbackparis THINGS YOU WOULD KNOW is “an ode to the Texan landscape” and “a tragedy, but also a memorialization, a way to capture what has been lost.” 4/ http://www.paperbackparis.com/things-you-would-know-if-you-grew-up-around-here-nancy-wayson-dinan-book-review/">https://www.paperbackparis.com/things-yo...
And just yesterday, @APNews raved “There’s more than a little of Salman Rushdie’s magical realism at play, as ghosts wander through the mist, scarecrows walk and vines reclaim the landscape.” 5/ https://abcnews.go.com/Entertainment/wireStory/review-dinans-debut-sounds-climate-change-alarm-70747966">https://abcnews.go.com/Entertain...
If you want a taste of @nancywdinan’s gorgeous prose, head over to @TheParisReview where her thought-provoking essay “Palimpsests” is live NOW! 6/ #more-145177">https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020/05/19/palimpsests/ #more-145177">https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2020...
And last but not least, don’t forget to pick up your copy of THINGS YOU WOULD KNOW IF YOU GREW UP AROUND HERE today!! 7/fin https://bookshop.org/books/things-you-would-know-if-you-grew-up-around-here/9781635574432?aid=1264">https://bookshop.org/books/thi...
