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{"id":1626,"date":"2019-06-02T09:45:10","date_gmt":"2019-06-02T09:45:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=1626"},"modified":"2019-06-02T09:49:15","modified_gmt":"2019-06-02T09:49:15","slug":"texas-reads-new-texas-history-lisa-wingate-update","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lonestar.a1professionals.net\/?p=1626&lang=ar","title":{"rendered":"Texas Reads: New Texas History, Lisa Wingate Update"},"content":{"rendered":"

Glenn Dromgoole’s “Texas Reads” discusses new Texas history and Lisa Wingate update.<\/p>\n

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Stephen Harrigan\u2019s long-awaited comprehensive history of Texas is scheduled for release by the University of Texas Press in October. I have not seen an advance copy, but I did read an excerpt in the UT Press fall catalog which arrived the other day. Big Wonderful Thing: A History of Texas<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong> ($35 hardcover) will tip the scales at 992 pages, according to the catalog, so you might want to start working with the weights before approaching the behemoth volume. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Harrigan is one of Texas\u2019s most-acclaimed writers, and Big Wonderful Thing<\/em> may well be the most anticipated Texas book of the year. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Here\u2019s what S.C. Gwynne, author of Empire of the Summer Moon<\/em>, has to say about Harrigan\u2019s epic: \u201cI am not sure which is the greater achievement here: digesting such a vast amount of historical data or making that gigantic wall of information fun to read. I challenge the reader to open to any page \u2026 and not have fun. It\u2019s all interesting, and that is not hype. Harrigan tacks brilliantly through the shifting winds of Texas history by telling a series of rip-snorting good tales.\u201d<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Doesn\u2019t that whet your appetite? <\/strong><\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lisa Wingate Update: <\/span><\/strong>I\u2019m happy to report that my friend Lisa Wingate\u2019s excellent novel, Before We Were Yours<\/em><\/span><\/a><\/strong>, is now available in paperback (Ballantine, $17). The book, which came out in hardback two years ago, spent fifty-two consecutive weeks on the New York Times<\/em> Bestseller List.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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The novel revolves around a Memphis children\u2019s home in the 1930s that kidnapped poor children and sold them to wealthy families for a huge profit. The story is fiction, but the children\u2019s home was not. Georgia Tann ran the Tennessee Children\u2019s Home Society in Memphis from the 1920s until the scandal was fully investigated in the early 1950s. The paperback edition includes a readers\u2019 supplement intended for book club discussions.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Lisa also has co-authored with Judy Christie a nonfiction book containing the real-life stories of orphans who survived the Tennessee Children\u2019s Home Society. That book, titled Before and After<\/em>, is scheduled for release on October 22. \u201cTheir true stories are surprising, and beautiful, and filled with life lessons about love, resilience, and the meaning of family,\u201d she says.<\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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Two more notes from Lisa: movie rights to Before We Were Yours<\/em> have been optioned by MGM, and she has completed her next novel which will come out sometime next year. <\/span><\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

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