The Haunted Book Shop: December Artwalk with RJ McDowell & John Miller

In Agatha Anxious & the Deer Island Ghost, readers are introduced to young Agatha Anxious, who finds herself embroiled in a gripping mystery right on her 13th birthday—a narrative that speaks to both young audiences and lovers of well-crafted suspense. As Agatha confronts the supernatural with guts and guile, she navigates the eerie disappearance of her Aunt Hattie with only a pirate coin, skeleton-drawn clues, and a mysterious book report to guide her.

A river swollen and drained by tides, a dauntless heart pumping time, forms the center of How My Father Became a Boat. This poetry collection begins in the last days of the speaker’s father before fanning out like the teeming deltas of its poems including boating in coastal waters, traveling backroads to and from the river, and mining the dictionary for comfort. Explore the Gulf South as setting and lens on a journey from loss to hope. In addition to interrogating how place contributes to identity, How My Father Became a Boat examines the nature of grief.

This will be an Artwalk to remember, celebrating the season, meeting two area writers, and checking off that gift list while supporting the artisans, writers, and local business owners of downtown Mobile.

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