The latest Tomes from local authors. —Lynn Norusis
‘Twisted’
by Bert Ashe
Agate Publishing
Our appearance is the persona we want others to think we embody. Bert Ashe, for most of his life, wanted to wear dreadlocks, but the timing didn’t feel right until he turned 40. The morning of March 21, 1998, was the day he looked at his past life—a childhood similar to a character on “The Wonder Years,” a graduate student at VCU and now a professor at the University of Richmond—and adopted the iconic hairstyle. “Twisted” is the story of how friends, family, colleagues and strangers took to his appearance and how Ashe evolved as the wearer of dreadlocks. (June 2015)
‘Decorum’
by Kaaren Christopherson
Kensington Books
A tragic boating accident kills protagonist Francesca’s family at the start of this Victorian-age saga of societal life in New York. The young woman is cast into the circles of the well-to-do and all the accompanying scandals and ambitions. And Connor O’Casey, an Irish self-made millionaire, tries to make a spot for himself in the already well-established. It is a story of discovery, entitlement and love as these two characters traverse the nation and try to find themselves. (April 2015)
(June 2015)
