To Be Renamed... Book Club discussion

Join us on Tuesday, Oct 29, 2019 at 6:30 pm at the 61B Cafe (Regent Square, S. Braddock Ave) to discuss Chanelle Benz's debut 2019 novel, The Gone Dead.

From the Goodreads description:

Billie James’s inheritance isn’t much: a little money and a shack in the Mississippi Delta. The house once belonged to her father, a renowned black poet who died unexpectedly when Billie was four years old. Though Billie was there when the accident happened, she has no memory of that day—and she hasn’t been back to the South since.

Thirty years later, Billie returns, but her father’s home is unnervingly secluded; her only neighbors are the McGees, the family whose history has been entangled with hers since the days of slavery. As Billie encounters the locals, she hears a strange rumor: that she herself went missing on the day her father died. As the mystery intensifies, she finds out that this forgotten piece of her past could put her in danger.

Inventive, gritty, and openhearted, The Gone Dead is an astonishing debut novel about race, justice, and memory that lays bare the long-concealed wounds of a family and a country.

Hope you can join us! Don't forget the 61B is cash-only, but there is an ATM right across the street!