Indigo Field Sneak Peek Author Chat with Marjorie Hudson (via Zoom)

“Indigo Field brims with multigenerational drama, carthy spirituality, and deeply imagined characters you are unlikely to forget. In tightly compressed, poetic language, Hudson weaves a mesmerizing story of loss, injustice, and revenge conspiring to darken the human heart–and the redemptive and unexpected ways the light comes in.”
-Sue Monk Kidd, author of The Invention of Wings, The Book of Longings, and The Secret Life of Bees

Join us for a sneak peek of her new novel, Indigo Field, with author Marjorie Hudson, in conversation with Georgann Eubanks.

In this eagerly-anticipated novel of moral reckoning, due out in March, 2023, the unjust outcome of a murder trial, and the chance accident that follows, result in a feud that raises the spirits of the dead forcing enemies to become allies in order to survive.

In the rural South, a retired colonel in an upscale retirement community grieves the sudden death of his wife on the tennis court. On the other side of the highway, an elderly Black woman grieves the murder of her niece by a white man. Between them lies an abandoned field where three centuries of crimes are hidden, and only she knows the explosive secrets buried there.

When the colonel runs into her car, causing a surprising amount of damage, it sparks a feud that sets loose the spirits in the Field, both benevolent and vengeful. In prose that’s been called “dazzling” and “mesmerizing,” in the animated voices of trees and birds and people, in Southern-voiced storytelling as deeply layered as that of Pat Conroy, Hudson lays out the boundaries of a field that contains the soul of the South, and leads us to a day of reckoning.

Author: Award-winning author Marjorie Hudson was born in the Midwest, raised in Washington, DC, and now makes her home in North Carolina. She is author of Accidental Birds of the Carolinas (stories) and Searching for Virginia Dare (history/travelogue), and her essays and stories plumb the depths of the human heart.

She lives on a century farm with her husband Sam and dog D], where she mentors writers and reads poetry to trees.

The reading is co-sponsored by RCWMS and McIntyre’s Books, an independent bookstore in Pittsboro, NC.

Cost: Free. Registration is required.

Pre-order the book: HERE.

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