Atlanta Intown. (Sandy Springs, GA) 1998-current, July 01, 2019, Image 44

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Newspaper Page TextThe Studio Arts & Culture Summer Reading New books by Atlanta authors perfect for poolside reading By Collin Kelley & Joe Earle Smile AWhile Kyle Brooks Better known by his nom de plume, BlackCatTips, the painter and muralist has created his first book, which includes many of his familiar smiling faces alongside poems about things you can do to smile and be happy. While it looks like a children’s book, Brooks said “Smile A While” is for all ages. The artist was reluctant to release a book, but after friend and marketing whiz Laura Thompson gave him a small Andy Warhol art book along with a business plan to get the book into the world, Brooks spent a year working on the paintings and verses. The book will debut at a reading and signing on Aug. 8 from 10 a.m. to noon at The Grove at Colony Square in Midtown. To order the book and find out about more events, visit blackcattips. com. We Are All Good People Here Susan Rebecca White Two life-long friends reconnect when their daughters are endangered by secrets from their mothers’ radical college days. Ummarriageable Soniah Kamal A thought-provoking retelling of Jane Austen’s “Pride and Prejudice” in class- obsessed, modern-day Pakistan. The Favorite The Magnetic Girl Jessica Handler Memoirist Jessica Handler and her mother shared an interest in stories of remarkable women, so years ago, when Handler’s mother came across an article about Lulu Hurst, she emailed a copy to her daughter. The article was titled “The Feats of the Magnetic Girl Explained.” That article would inspire Handler’s debut novel, a fictionalized account of Hurst’s days as vaudeville act and how she supposedly used magnetism in her body to lift people seated in parlor chairs or to knock grown men across the stage. Hurst later admitted in her own autobiography that she was a charlatan and her powers were actually tricks and stagecraft. For her version of Lulu’s story, Handler invented a sick younger brother, who hopes Hurst’s magnetic powers might heal him, and explores her relationship with her who enjoy the benefits of their daughter’s growing celebrity. Handler says she spent about a decade working on the novel and even tried to perform some of Hurst’s “magnetic tests” herself, but never fully mastered them. “The chair thing, I can’t figure,” she said. 44 July 2019 | HD A woman returns to her small South Carolina hometown to care for her father diagnosed with Alzheimer’s and discovers his secret past. ntalNtownPaper.com None of the Above Shani Robinson and Anna Simonton Robinson, one of the teachers caught up in the Atlanta Public Schools cheating scandal, and journalist Simonton explore the racial and economic disparities that brought about the The Care and Feeding of Ravenously Hungry Girls Anissa Gray The lives of three sisters are upended when one of them is sent to prison for defrauding the town they live in. Deaf Republic Ilya Kaminsky The new director of Poetry at Tech, Kaminsky’s tour- de-force collection of poems weaves a narrative of a town in a war-torn country whose populace goes deaf in protest and resistance againt the occupiers.

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Atlanta Intown. (Sandy Springs, GA) 1998-current, July 01, 2019, Image 44