Mindy Misener in Conversation with Amy Leach
October 18 @ 5:00pm
Country Bookshelf is excited to welcome Mindy Misener, author of the debut novel Good Guys, in conversation with award-winning Bozeman author Amy Leach! Praised by Karen Russell as “a brilliantly paced and plotted novel,” Good Guys follows two estranged sisters in a small New England town who become embroiled in a war crime involving a local hero.
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ABOUT GOOD GUYS
Georgie and Jo are sisters, but they aren’t close. The situation seems worse once Jo goes off to college, making it obvious she’s happy about leaving Curtisville and Georgie and their disabled father behind.Then, Gary Clemmons dies in the Iraq War. Gary—the son of their pastor, the hero of their hometown, and the brother of Georgie’s secret girlfriend—was famous for being a good guy.
But Georgie stumbles on a dark secret about Gary, and once Jo finds out, things begin to spiral out of control. The fallout will change both sister’s lives forever. In the end, Good Guys uncovers the underbelly of a small town—the darkness of patriotism and masculinity, the harm caused by blind religious fervor, and the ways these dynamics can destroy families.
ABOUT MINDY MISENER
Mindy Misener grew up in Maine. She is a graduate of Williams College and the University of Michigan’s Helen Zell Writers’ Program. After teaching college writing for ten years, she made a career change and enrolled in Yale Divinity School. She is on track to be ordained in the UCC. Her prose has appeared in Image, The Missouri Review, CrossCurrents, The Appalachian Review, The Pinch, The Common, and other outlets.
ABOUT AMY LEACH
Amy Leach grew up in Texas and earned her MFA from the Nonfiction Writing Program at the University of Iowa. Her work has appeared in The Best American Essays, The Best American Science and Nature Writing, and numerous other publications, including Granta, A Public Space, Orion, Tin House, and the Los Angeles Review of Books. She is a recipient of a Whiting Writers’ Award, a Rona Jaffe Foundation Award, and a Pushcart Prize. She is the author of Things That Are (Milkweed Editions), The Everybody Ensemble (FSG), and The Salt of the Universe (FSG), a finalist for the PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay. She lives in Bozeman, Montana.
