Georgia Author of the Year Finalist-Best First Novel, Dawn Major Featured Author at the 2024 Louisiana Book Festival
WHO, WHAT, WHEN & WHERE:
Coming of Age: Exploring Otherness in Fiction Panel with Dawn Major, Karen Spears Zacharias, Susan Beckham Zurenda, and moderator Mary McMyne
NOV. 2, 2024 at 12:45 to 1:45 PM State Capitol, House Committee Room 2 BOOK SIGNING: 2:00 to 2:45 PM in CAVALIER HOUSE BOOKS Tent
DAWN MAJOR was named 2024 Finalist for Georgia Author of the Year for BEST FIRST NOVEL. She is an associate editor at Southern Literary Review and has an MFA in creative writing. She was a recipient of the James Dickey Review Literary Fellowship and Dr. Robert Driscoll Excellence in Writing Award. Major is a member of the William Gay Archive and advocates for southern writers via her blog SouthernRead. WWW.DAWNMAJOR.COM
THE BYSTANDERS: A COMING-OF-AGE NOVEL WHERE A DYSFUNCTIONAL FAMILY SEEKS A DO-OVER IN A QUAINT TOWN, BUT IN ADDITION TO PACKING UP THEIR OWN PERSONAL DEMONS, THEY DISCOVER THE LOCALS AREN’T SO WELCOMING. The quaint town of Lawrenceton, Missouri isn’t sending out the welcoming committee for its newest neighbors from Los Angeles, the Samples’ family. The Bystanders pays homage to Americana, its small-town eccentricities, and the rural people of the Northern Mississippi Delta region of Southeast Missouri–a unique area of the country where people still speak Paw Paw French and honor Old World traditions.
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