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[jmberryfictionwriter]

Indie Books Worth Noticing - #KoPPM #kirkusreviews follow link in bio☝☝: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/14-recommended-indie-books-worth-noticing-sponsore/the-unheralded-king-of-preston-plains-middle/ #igwriters #writersofig #writersofinstagram ___________________________________________ The Unheralded King of Preston Plains Middle tells a story of dislocation. A mother loses her eldest son. The other son loses his only brother. The boys father, estranged from the family ahead of his sons death, loses his hold on everything dear to him. A grandfather stands by, calling on his spirit gods to piece his family back together. ___________________________________________ #prose #multicultural #literary #fiction #booktube #booktastic #booklove #bookstagram #avidreader #bibliophile #goodreads #booknerdigans #readsoullit #amwriting #readinghaspurpose 📚

[mybooksobsessed]

Starting with this new book. I in absolute awe of Sheryl Sandberg. An extraordinary woman of worth whose journey and words have inspired ppl far and wide !!! #currentread #instaread #readindia #readtheworld #readinghaspurpose #avidreader #sherylsandberg #optionb #booklovers 💜

[jmberryfictionwriter]

Indie Books Worth Noticing - #KoPPM #kirkusreviews follow link in bio☝☝: https://www.kirkusreviews.com/lists/14-recommended-indie-books-worth-noticing-sponsore/the-unheralded-king-of-preston-plains-middle/ If you have already purchased, TY🙏. But please be so kind as to leave a review. Book buzz is as much appreciated as the sale itself. #igwriters #writersofig #writersofinstagram ___________________________________________ Trajan Hopkins is the prototypical adolescent male, protected on all sides by the soft cushion of family. He worships his brother, Langston, invariably from a crouched defensive position in an effort to fend off the latest sequence of moves his brother is working to perfect. Langston is widely regarded around town as Preston's most prolific fighter, steeped in martial arts, his ambition set on someday reaching the Olympic stage. The dutiful second seed, Trajan fits neatly inside his brother's shadow. When his brother dies, it's like one leg of a chair going missing, warping Trajan's sense of connection to anybody near to him. He ventures into the world alone, steps out on the call of the wind, the rise of the moon, the tide pulling against him. He returns at the end of the night to diminished ties, the weave of familiar cues strewn loose about him, waves crashing in, pushing him ever further from the shelter of home. ___________________________________________ #prose #multicultural #literary #fiction #booktube #booktastic #booklove #bookstagram #avidreader #bibliophile #goodreads #booknerdigans #readsoullit #amwriting #readinghaspurpose 📚

[jmberryfictionwriter]

#samplesunday #bookexcerpt #SunIsSky #SkyIsComing #happyeaster ___________________________________________ #prose #literary #fiction #booktube #booklove #bookstagram #avidreader #readinghaspurpose #readsoullit #amwriting #igwriters #writersofig #writersofinstagram 📚 (at Austin, Texas)

[jmberryfictionwriter]

#readsoullit #photochallenge 5. Five Star Reads 🌟🌟🌟🌟🌟 Epic, get lost inside of reads. #EdwidgeDanticat #VSNaipaul #RebeccaWalker ___________________________________________ #booknerdigans #readinghaspurpose #blackamericanauthors #blackhistorymonth2017 #blackbooks #blerdlife 📚

[jmberryfictionwriter]

#samplesaturday #bookexcerpt #SunIsSky #SkyIsComing #mood ___________________________________________ The day was too perfect to stay cooped up inside, even for a gloomy-Gus like me. The sun hung in the sky just so. Even the few clouds that bothered to show up were just enough to punctuate how bright the springtime sky can be, their oblong shapes outlined in varying degrees of shadow and light against an otherwise endless expanse of blue. I took the bus into town to feel like I was going someplace then continued the ride home never bothering to disembark... I thought about the lost soul I hoped to befriend as the bus crossed Sycamore on its way back toward Richardson. I spotted August strolling in the opposite direction alongside the roadway, his suit jacket flung across his shoulder. He looked as pitiful as I felt. The thought moved inside me before my mind could protest. Still, I had to force my feet to go, had to urge my hand to signal for the next stop landing me square in August’s path. The bus left me in a thick cloud of exhaust fumes. I found the solitude helped to quiet my nerves as I waited for the air surrounding me to clear, for the sun and clouds and springtime blue to install themselves in the sky again. ___________________________________________ #prose #literary #fiction #booktube #booklove #bookstagram #avidreader #readinghaspurpose #readsoullit #amwriting #igwriters #writersofig #writersofinstagram 📚

[jmberryfictionwriter]

#Repost paying tribute to #instaphotographer @faith.gb #yourlensmypen #whpwordstoimages ・・・ #clarksdalemississippi #mississippidelta #mississippichurches #doubleexposure ___________________________________________ Past Lies - I fear at times I will rise to heaven to find that God hadn’t minded my sins, recognizes how poorly they reflect my true intent. What He had minded is that I failed to own up to the things I’ve done, spent an entire lifetime across from my only child never acknowledging her connection to me. I suspect she knew. She acted at times like she did though she never held over my head that she knew. Never let past her lips how I had denied her. Alton Combs was good in that way. Accepted the role he’d played in our sin and settled into raising a daughter alone, his daughter, lost to me forever. Took the greatest responsibility when he was least to blame. He lay down with me to squelch my desires, to put an end to my relentless pursuit. Not that I could have resisted that man had he wanted me, but he never did. Asked if I’d gotten what I came for when it was over, his eyes vacant like he’d lost something in the exchange, an exchange we’d never have occasion to repeat. #samplesaturday #bookexcerpt #SunIsSky ___________________________________________ #prose #literary #fiction #booktube #booklove #bookstagram #avidreader #readinghaspurpose #readsoullit #amwriting #igwriters #writersofig #writersofinstagram 📚 (at Clarksdale, Mississippi)

[jmberryfictionwriter]

Anxious to get the publishing process underway #amediting #samplesaturday #bookexcerpt #SunIsSky #SkyIsComing ___________________________________________ #prose #literary #fiction #booktube #booklove #bookstagram #avidreader #readinghaspurpose #readsoullit #amwriting #igwriters #writersofig #writersofinstagram 📚

[jmberryfictionwriter]

#Repost paying tribute to #instaphotographer @littledrummergirl1 ・・・ #birdhouses #birdspotting #mississippidelta #samplesaturday #amediting #bookexcerpt #SunIsSky ___________________________________________ I rejoined August on the front porch. We watched as his brother nuzzled his newborn bride. August seemed happy for him in a way he can’t manage to be happy for himself. He talked at length about Octavius on the drive up, preparing me for the introduction. I can’t understand why of all people August was most concerned with my meeting his younger brother. “That boy was born to breed horses, is cut from the very grain those horses feed on.” His words carried a deep familiarity like he was talking about a part of himself, separate in physical form yet connected deeply to him. “I thought for a brief while I was jealous. But that could hardly be the case. I mean, you’re not supposed to envy your little brother. Besides, he and I never wanted the same thing. He’d rather twist a blade of grass between his toes out behind the stables than make his way to a corner of the world as remote as Picayune, a town full of new people brightening my day." August shot me a look from the corner of his eyes that made my knees quake a little. “What I most admire is how seamlessly he fits in with his surroundings, how easily he moves in well-conjured circles. To achieve with effort half of what he’s accomplished without even trying would be remarkable. Like the first time I noticed my snot-nosed brother could play the piano. That he had practiced the same lessons I ducked at every turn, only now he can play. Make love to the keys and stroke your eardrums, the notes swirling around the room in physical form. But, being your little brother, he shelves his talent feeling you won’t appreciate anything he’s accomplished ahead of your lead, considers my pride over his own ambition. And all I can be is jealous." Octavius nodded his head in August's direction, the mutual admiration between the brothers plain to see. ___________________________________________ #prose #literary #fiction #booktube #booklove #bookstagram #avidreader #readsoullit #readinghaspurpose #amwriting #igwriters

[jmberryfictionwriter]

#Repost paying tribute to #instaartist @mitch.bleier with @repostapp ・・・ #WashingtonHeights #sunrise from #FortLeeHistoricPark #BergenCounty #NewJersey #NJ #amediting #bookexcerpt #SunIsSky #yourlensmypen ___________________________________________ Used-to-dos – You don’t realize how far you’ve come until you find yourself back home. Gram used to say that with three pebbles she could trace her entire existence on this earth. I needed only two: one for New York, the other for Picayune, my existence in either place spanning half my lifetime. I returned to a smattering of vaguely recognizable cues cast against a jumble of background details, none of which I can place with any certainty. It’s like someone had taken up the block to dust then failed to return everything to its original position. Anything I thought I remembered stood slightly off kilter. Nothing different enough that I didn’t recognize where I was. Still I felt lost. ___________________________________________ #prose #literary #fiction #booktube #booklove #bookstagram #avidreader #readinghaspurpose #readsoullit #amwriting #igwriters #writersofig #writersofinstagram 📚 (at Morningside Heights, Manhattan)

[jmberryfictionwriter]

#avidreader #bibliophile #readingissexy #ReadingHasPurpose

[jmberryfictionwriter]

#Repost @shannon_rhp it is my pleasure. Happy reading. Enjoy the #baltimorebookfestival ・・・ Thanks @jedah.mayberry for *the* best autograph. He hashtaged it (yes, I made that up)- #ReadingHasPurpose 😊 "The Unheralded King of Preston Plains Middle" is described as intelligent, richly cadenced, slyly funny, and deeply thoughtful about what it means to be a son, a father, and a man. #KoPPM