Pop Up Oxford will kick off on Sunday, January 22 through Saturday, January 28 with events and programs celebrating Oxford’s rich cultural scene. Square Books will be participating with a week full of author events at Off Square Books. Visit http://visitoxfordms.com/pop-up-oxford/ to learn more.
Monday, 5pm
Susan Rivers with The Second Mrs. Hockaday
When Major Gryffth Hockaday is called to the front lines of the Civil War, his new bride is left to care for her husband’s three-hundred-acre farm and infant son. Placidia, a mere teenager herself living far from her family and completely unprepared to run a farm or raise a child, must endure the darkest days of the war on her own. By the time Major Hockaday returns two years later, Placidia is bound for jail, accused of having borne a child in his absence and murdering it. What really transpired in the two years he was away?
Tuesday, 5pm
Mary Miller with Always Happy Hour
Acerbic and ruefully funny, Always Happy Hour weaves tales of young women—deeply flawed and intensely real—who struggle to get out of their own way. They love to drink and have sex; they make bad decisions with men who either love them too much or too little; and they haunt a Southern terrain of gas stations, public pools, and dive bars. Though each character shoulders the weight of her own baggage—whether it’s a string of horrible exes, a boyfriend with an annoying child, or an inability to be genuinely happy for a best friend—they are united in their unrelenting suspicion that they deserve better.
Wednesday, 5pm
Kevin Wilson with Perfect Little World
Kevin Wilson’s anticipated follow-up to The Family Fang, Perfect Little World is a warm-hearted and emotional story about a young woman charting her own course.
Thursday, 6pm (Thacker Mountain Radio Show)
Tim Gautreaux with Signals
After the stunning historical novels The Clearing and The Missing, Tim Gautreaux now ranges freely through contemporary life with twelve new stories and eight from previous collections.
Diane Williams with Mississippi Folks and the Tales They Tell
From the hills to the coast, the people of Mississippi have stories to tell. Author and storyteller Diane Williams traveled across the Magnolia State to gather these local legends and has compiled them into an inquisitive, laugh-out-loud collection.