In the Heart of Texas: A Novel
()
About this ebook
Named a “Fall Must-Read” by RedbookMag.com * PopSugar * Parade Magazine * Brit + Co * SoulCycle
Hailed as a “Best Fiction Book by Women of Color” at Bustle.com
Pitched as “a poor man’s Halle Berry,” forty-one-year-old soap star Jo Randolph, has successfully avoided waiting tables since she left Midland, Texas at eighteen. But then, in the span of twenty-four hours, Jo manages to lose her job, burn her bridges in Hollywood, and accidentally burn down her lover/director’s beach house—after which she is shipped home to Texas by her agent to stay out of sight while she sorts out her situation.
The more Jo reluctantly reconnects with her Texas “roots” and the family and friends she left behind, the more she regains touch with herself as an artist and with what is meaningful in life beyond the limelight. The summer of 2007 is cathartic for Jo, whose career and lifestyle have allowed her to live like a child for forty years, but who now must transition to making grown-up decisions and taking on adult responsibilities. In the Heart of Texas is a wry, humorous commentary on the complexities of race, class, relationships, politics, popular culture, and celebrity in our current society.
Ginger McKnight-Chavers
A native of Dallas, Texas, Ginger McKnight-Chavers is a graduate of Georgetown’s School of Foreign Service and Harvard Law School. She was a Kathryn Gurfein Writing Fellow at Sarah Lawrence College and her debut novel, In the Heart of Texas, will be released in Fall 2016 by She Writes Press. McKnight-Chavers currently blogs for the Huffington Post and The TexPatch, and she lives in Westchester County, New York with her husband, daughter, and an overweight West Highland White Terrier.
Related to In the Heart of Texas
Related ebooks
Desiring Red Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Black Velvet: Stirred Passions, #2 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dragonblood Ring Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratings#scandal Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5It Had to be You: It Had To Be You Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsAlways the First to Die: A Novel Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsMine Game Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsLong Shadows: Lycanthropy Files, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCrank Town Ripper: an edge of your seat, scary psychological thriller-book 1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsR. E. D. Birth of an Elemental Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHot Nights in Morocco Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wake-up Call Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDragon Love: The Omen Club, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWicked Sense: Singularity - The Modern Witches, #1 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Seven Heavenly Virtues: Fantasy Noir Anthology From The Fringe Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsHot Girl Summer Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCursed City Series: Book 1 - Gargoyle Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsSleigh Ride Together with You: Starlight Christmas Series Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsTurn Tables: Reel Romance, #2 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsDragon Hunts Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsPrawn of the Dead Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Prodigy: Silver Spoon MC Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsCaptivated (Complete Serial): The Dragons Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Dying Breath Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Angel Roars: Soul Forge, #5 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsClaiming His Beauty: Feral Breed Motorcycle Club, #4 Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Awakened Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wyntress Nyght: Exes & Hexes Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsBlood and Bullets: Deacon Chalk, #1 Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsJester Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5
African American Fiction For You
Salvage the Bones: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Pomegranate: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Girl, Woman, Other: A Novel (Booker Prize Winner) Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Sing, Unburied, Sing: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Love Songs of W.E.B. Du Bois: An Oprah's Book Club Pick Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Razorblade Tears: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Nigerwife: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Leave the World Behind: A Read with Jenna Pick Rating: 3 out of 5 stars3/5Everything's Fine Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Devil in a Blue Dress (30th Anniversary Edition): An Easy Rawlins Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Other Black Girl: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Perfect Peace: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Lovecraft Country: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Deep Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Blacktop Wasteland: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Queenie Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Cry, the Beloved Country Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Stories from the Tenants Downstairs Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Wife Before: A Spellbinding Psychological Thriller with a Shocking Twist Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Summary of Black Cake: by Charmaine Wilkerson - A Comprehensive Summary Rating: 0 out of 5 stars0 ratingsWe Are Not Like Them: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Spook Who Sat by the Door, Second Edition Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Good House: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Final Revival of Opal & Nev Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5The Kindest Lie: A Novel Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Midnight: A Gangster Love Story Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5In Love & Trouble: Stories of Black Women Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Wild Women and the Blues: A Fascinating and Innovative Novel of Historical Fiction Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5You Can't Keep a Good Woman Down: Stories Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5Not Without Laughter Rating: 4 out of 5 stars4/5
Related categories
Reviews for In the Heart of Texas
0 ratings0 reviews