Join us in welcoming Odie Lindsey as he discusses his "incandescent debut novel" (—Publishers Weekly) Some Go Home!

About Some Go Home:

A searing debut novel that follows three generations—fractured by murder, seeking redemption—in fictional Pitchlynn, Mississippi.

An Iraq war veteran turned small town homemaker, Colleen works hard to keep her deployment behind her—until pregnancy brings her buried trauma to the surface. She hides her mounting anxiety from her husband, Derby, who is in turn preoccupied with the media frenzy surrounding the long-overdue retrial of his father, Hare Hobbs, for a civil rights–era murder.

As Colleen and Derby prepare for the arrival of their twins, they must confront what it will mean to parent children in Pitchlynn, a town whose upscale marketing rebrand will reframe its antebellum estates … and erase any legacy of violence. And as the trial draws near, questions of Hare’s guilt only magnify these tensions of class and race, tied always to the land and who can call it their own.

Twisting together individual and collective history, Some Go Home is a richly textured, explosive depiction of both the American South and our larger cultural legacy.

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Odie Lindsey is the author of the novel Some Go Home (2020), and the story collection We Come to Our Senses (2016), both from W. W. Norton. His fiction has appeared in Best American Short Stories, Iowa Review, Guernica, Fourteen Hills, Electric Literature’s Recommended Reading and elsewhere, and his nonfiction is found in Oxford American, The Millions, Columbia, LitHub, and the Southwest Review. His work has been awarded the Mississippi Institute of Arts and Letters prize in Fiction (Some Go Home), and the McGinnis-Ritchie Award for Nonfiction (Southwest Review).

Some Go Home will be available at Lost City Books!