Thirty years after her stepbrother\'s unsolved murder, a reluctant Mary Byrd Thornton is forced by a detective\'s call to return to her family and again confront the crime\'s irremovable stain.
This is her first novel..
Her writing has appeared in Garden & Gun and the Oxford American.
She received the Governor\'s Award for Excellence in the Arts in 1996 and a Mac Dowell Colony Fellowship in 2007.
They opened Square Books (named by Publishers Weekly as the 2013 Bookstore of the Year) in 1979.
She moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where she married her husband, Richard, and raised their three children.
C., where her family has lived for four generations.
About the Author: Lisa Howorth was born in Washington, D.
With a flamboyant cast, splendid dark humor, a potent sense of history, and a shocking true story at its heart, Flying Shoes is a rich and candid novel from a fresh new voice about family and memory and one woman\'s flight from a wounded past.
And yet this is not a crime novel; it is an honest and luminous story of a particular time and place in the South, where even calamitous weather can be a character, everyone has a story, and all are inextricably entwined.
This stunning debut--from the cofounder of the legendary Square Books in Oxford, Mississippi--is a work of fiction, but the murder is based on the still-unsolved case of Lisa Howorth\'s stepbrother, a front page story in the Washington Post.
Thirty years after her stepbrother\'s unsolved murder, a reluctant Mary Byrd Thornton is forced by a detective\'s call to return to her family and again confront the crime\'s irremovable stain
