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BOOKS<br />
Malaprop’s presents ‘The Last You Surrender: A novel of WWII’ and<br />
‘Together: A memoir of a marriage and a medical mishap’ this <strong>February</strong><br />
BY STAFF REPORTS • DOWNTOWN ASHEVILLE<br />
‘THE LAST THING YOU SURREN-<br />
DER: A NOVEL OF WORLD<br />
WAR II’ BY LEONARD PITTS, JR.<br />
Pulitzer-winning journalist and<br />
bestselling novelist (Freeman)<br />
Leonard Pitts, Jr.’s<br />
new historical page-turner<br />
is a great American tale<br />
of race and war, following<br />
three characters from the Jim<br />
Crow South as they face the<br />
enormous changes World War II<br />
triggers in the United States.<br />
An affluent white marine survives<br />
Pearl Harbor at the cost of a black<br />
messman’s life only to be sent,<br />
wracked with guilt, to the Pacific and<br />
taken prisoner by the Japanese . .<br />
. a young black woman, widowed<br />
by the same events at Pearl Harbor,<br />
finds unexpected opportunity and a<br />
dangerous friendship in a segregated<br />
Alabama shipyard feeding the war . .<br />
. a black man, who as a child saw his<br />
parents brutally lynched, is conscripted<br />
to fight Nazis for a country he<br />
despises and discovers a new kind<br />
of patriotism in the all-black 761st<br />
Tank Battalion.<br />
Set against a backdrop of violent<br />
racial conflict on both the front lines<br />
and the home front, The Last Thing<br />
You Surrender explores the powerful<br />
moral struggles of individuals from<br />
a divided nation. What does it take<br />
to change someone’s mind about<br />
race? What does it take for a country<br />
and a people to move forward,<br />
transformed?<br />
Leonard Pitts, Jr., is the author<br />
of the novels Grant Park, Freeman,<br />
and Before I Forget, as well as two<br />
works of nonfiction. He is a nationally<br />
syndicated columnist for<br />
the Miami Herald and winner<br />
of the 2004 Pulitzer Prize for<br />
commentary, in addition<br />
to many other awards.<br />
Born and raised in<br />
Southern California,<br />
Pitts now<br />
lives in suburban<br />
Washington, DC.<br />
‘TOGETHER: A MEMOIR OF A<br />
MARRIAGE AND A MEDICAL<br />
MISHAP’ BY JUDY GOLDMAN<br />
Reminiscent of Dani Shapiro’s<br />
Hourglass, memoirist Judy Goldman<br />
paints a portrait of a relationship tested<br />
and lives changed in an instant<br />
in Together: A Memoir of a Marriage<br />
and a Medical Mishap.<br />
Faced with an unknown future<br />
when her husband of 40 years<br />
becomes paralyzed from the waist<br />
down after a botched medical procedure,<br />
Goldman must take on the role<br />
her husband had always occupied<br />
– that of the provider – and as she<br />
tries to envision her family’s future,<br />
she discovers a new, more resilient<br />
version of herself.<br />
When Goldman’s husband Henry<br />
walks into an outpatient clinic to receive<br />
an epidural for his chronic back<br />
pain, a procedure that should have<br />
taken an hour and a half, he leaves<br />
days later in a wheelchair, paralyzed<br />
from the waist down and utterly reliant<br />
upon his wife.<br />
Overnight, Goldman’s world is<br />
turned upside down. Though she<br />
had always thought of herself<br />
as the polite, demure wife<br />
opposite her robust and<br />
brave husband, she finds<br />
herself thrown into a new<br />
role as Henry’s advocate,<br />
navigating the complex world<br />
of hospital policies, indeterminate<br />
diagnoses, and bullish doctors.<br />
Alternating between the uncertain<br />
hours after Henry’s life-changing<br />
procedure and the early years of their<br />
marriage, Together is an elegant and<br />
empathic meditation on partnership,<br />
aging, and love.<br />
IF<br />
YOU<br />
GO<br />
Malaprop’s Book Sigings:<br />
The Last Thing you Surrender:<br />
A novel of World War II by<br />
Leonard Pitts, Jr.<br />
Wednesday, <strong>February</strong> 6, 6pm<br />
Together:A Memoir of a Marriage and<br />
a Medical Mishap. by Judy Goldman.<br />
Wednessday, <strong>February</strong> 13, 6pm<br />
Malaprop’s Bookstore / Café<br />
55 Haywood St. • Asheville, NC •<br />
(828) 254-6734 • Mon-Sat 9am-9pm<br />
• Sun 9am-7pm<br />
www.malaprops.com<br />
FEB <strong>2019</strong><br />
PARTIAL LISTING<br />
We host numerous Readings &<br />
Book clubs, as well as Salons!<br />
Visit www.malaprops.com<br />
READINGS & BOOK SIGNINGS<br />
Gus Vickery, M.D. presents<br />
‘Authentic Health’ 02/04 - 6pm<br />
Lori Leachman, Ph.D.<br />
presents ‘The King of Halloween<br />
and Miss Firecracker<br />
Queen’ 02/05 - 6pm<br />
Garth Davis, MD presents<br />
‘Proteinaholic: How Our<br />
Obsession with Meat Is Killing<br />
Us and What We Can Do<br />
about It’ 02/11 - 6pm<br />
Judy Goldman presents<br />
‘Together: A Memoir of a<br />
Marriage and a Medical<br />
Mishap’ 02/13 - 6pm<br />
DaMaris Hill presents<br />
‘A Bound Woman is a<br />
Dangerous Thing’ 02/14 - 6pm<br />
Susi Gott Séguret presents<br />
‘Child of the Woods: An<br />
Appalachian Odyssey’<br />
02/26 - 6pm<br />
Happy Valentine’s Day!<br />
55 Haywood St.<br />
(828) 254-6734 • 800-441-9829<br />
Monday-Saturday 9AM to 9PM<br />
Sunday 9AM to 7PM<br />
Vol. 22, No. 06 — <strong>February</strong> <strong>2019</strong><br />
RAPID RIVER’S ARTS & CULTURE MAGAZINE | 25
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