Join JUNE’s READ THIS! A Book Club by Gini Koch with Dawn Major, Author of The Bystanders: June 19th, 2025, 9-10 PM EST.
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Praise for The Bystanders
Full of passion and punch, the characters in Dawn Major’s gritty debut novel, The Bystanders, grab hold and don’t let go. Living with her family in a trailer on the outskirts of Lawrenceton, Missouri, teenager Shannon feels outcast from her peers, as her mother Wendy continually combats an abusive husband. Mother and daughter struggle to fill empty places in their hearts in this commanding story sure to touch the reader. Susan Beckham Zurenda, Author of Bells for Eli
Flannery O’Connor and Eudora Welty move over, there is a new voice on the stage, Dawn Major’s first novel, The Bystanders, is about to enter the ranks of Southern Literature. -J.M. White, Author of Pulling Down The Sun and The Beyond Within
Gini Koch writes the fast, fresh, and funny Alien/Katherine “Kitty” Katt series, the Necropolis Enforcement Files, and the Martian Alliance Chronicles. As G.J. Koch she writes the Alexander Outland series and she’s made the most of multiple personality disorder by writing novels, novellas, novelettes, and short stories in all the genres out there and under a variety of other pen names as well, including Anita Ensal, Jemma Chase, A.E. Stanton, and J.C. Koch. With co-author Bebe Bayliss she writes the Fall’s Girl Mysteries and the Santa Paloma Mysteries.
Dawn Major’s novel, The Bystanders, was the finalist for 2024 Georgia Author of the Year for Best First Novel. Major is an associate editor at Southern Literary Review and a co-editor at WELL READ Magazine where she writes a column called “TripLit with D. Major.” She lives in Atlanta, GA with her family and is currently working on a horror novella called Chronicles in Dandy Land. For Publications and More: www.dawnmajor.com
