Marjorie Hudson | Indigo Field (IN STORE)

ABOUT THE EVENT

Tickets include a signed copy of INDIGO FIELD, guaranteed entry to the event, and a seat in the reserved section. Marjorie and Valeire will sign and personalize books after the program.

ABOUT THE BOOK

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, Marjorie Hudson lays out the boundaries of a field that contains the soul of the South, and leads us to a day of reckoning.

ABOUT THE 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 DJ, where she mentors writers and reads poetry to trees.

VALERIE NIEMAN is he author of In the Lonely Backwater, winner of the 2022 Sir Walter Raleigh Award. To the Bones, a horror/Appalachian/ecojustice novel, was a finalist for the 2020 Manly Wade Wellman Award, joining three earlier novels, a short fiction collection, and three poetry books. Valerie has held state and NEA fellowships and is professor emerita of creative writing at NC A&T State University.