Larry Baker’s Tell It Slant: A Novel by Nobody is the intimate memoir” of Emily Sterling who is dying of breast cancer and determined to keep talking. Remembering her eccentric childhood a turbulent decade-long love affair and her late bloom as a novelist Emily reflects on the women who shaped her life – her mother friends rivals and heirs. In Pulitzer Prize winner Robert Olen Butler‘s Twice Around a Marriage Amanda and Howard an early-septuagenarian couple married for 22 years then divorced for 10 and now in the 10th year of a second-try union confront the stories that bind them – and those that threaten to undo them – while locked down in Paris as the city shutters during COVID. Moderated by Ellen Book, Miami-Dade Public Library System branch manager.
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LARRY BAKER is the author of six novels. His first, The Flamingo Rising: A Novel, became a Hallmark movie in 2001. He began publishing short stories at the age of 15 and his first novel was published when he was 50. Baker currently lives in Iowa City, Iowa, but is not a graduate of the Writers’ Workshop. Tell It Slant: A Novel by Nobody (Ice Cube Press) is his final novel.
