Avery Cunningham joins me to discuss her debut novel, The Mayor of Maxwell Street which is published by Hyperion. A native of Jackson, TN and now a resident of Memphis, Avery has crafted a tale set in the early 1920s in Chicago, as the wealthiest African-American families have gathered for the funeral of the son of the richest black man in the nation. The Sawyer family’s daughter, Nelly, only wants to become a journalist, but her parents have other plans for her future, as she chases after the most mysterious criminal in Chicago’s underworld, The Mayor of Mawell Street.
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Reed Farrel Coleman - Robert B. Parker's Colorblind
Rea Frey - Not Her Daughter
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Jeremy Finley - The Darkest Time of Night
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Debby Schriver - Whispering in the Daylight
Lisa Patton - Rush
Beatriz Williams - The Summer Wives
Jo Watson Hackl - Smack Dab in the Middle of Maybe
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Caleb Johnson - Treeborne
Hannah Pittard - Visible Empire
Rob Sangster - No Return
Wayne Wiegand - The Desegregation of Public Libraries in the Jim Crow South
William Boyle - The Lonely Witness
Ace Atkins - Robert B. Parker's Old Black Magic
Melissa de la Cruz - Love & War
Rick Bragg - The Best Cook in the World
Joseph Rosenbloom - Redemption
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