Beginning with Cannonballs: A Novel

“ . . . both timely and timeless in today's fraught social climate.” —Necessary Fiction

“This lyric novel is a gorgeous mosaic.” —John Dufresne

The award-winning author of True Stories at the Smoky View is back with another novel about an unusual friendship. In the 1940s, in segregated Knoxville, Tennessee, Gail (white) and Hanna (black) shared a crib in Gail’s parents’ house, where Hanna’s mother, Sophie, was the live-in maid. When the girls were four, Sophie taught them to swim, and soon th...