BettyJoyce Nash with Rebecca Keller "Everybody Here is Kin"

BettyJoyce Nash will be celebrating her new book, Everybody Here is Kin, in-store at The Book Cellar with conversation partner Rebecca Keller!

About the Book:

On Boneyard Island, Georgia, where everyone’s weirdly kin, 13-year-old Lucille is marooned when her mother goes AWOL with an old flame, leaving Lucille with only her father’s ashes, two half-siblings, and Will, the misanthropic manager of the island’s only motel. The abandonment kills hope of Lucille’s promised snorkeling trip to the Florida Reef before ocean heat kills the coral and illusions she’s harbored about her mother’s sanity. Everybody Here Is Kin explores the lives of this sinking family, the island community, and fears of exposing wounds, old and new, when natural disaster forces them to trust, and depend on, strangers.

About the Author:

BettyJoyce Nash's writing has appeared in journals including North Dakota Quarterly and Across the Margin, as well as in newspapers, magazines, and online; her fiction has been recognized with fellowships from MacDowell (2013), The Ragdale Foundation (2015), and VCCA (2018). In 2014, she was selected as the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts fiction fellow to the Tyrone Guthrie Center in Ireland. She’s taught writing at the University of Richmond, the Albemarle Charlottesville Regional Jail, and several community writing centers; she now teaches at WriterHouse, a nonprofit literary arts center in Charlottesville, Virginia.

About the Conversation Partner:

Rebecca Keller is the author of You Should Have Known (April 4, 2023; Crooked Lane Books). She is also an internationally exhibited visual artist, a college professor at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, a Fulbright Scholar, and a recipient of awards from the National Endowment for the Arts. Her stories have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize. You can visit her online at rebeccakeller.com.