Come by the Bookcellar to listen to Susan Cushman about her newest book John and Mary Margaret, which comes out on June 8th!

Susan Cushman was born in Jackson, Mississippi, and came of age in the 1960s Jim Crow South. She pledged Tri Delta sorority at Ole Miss in 1969. Her previously published books include Friends of the Library (short stores), Cherry Bomb (a novel), Tangles and Plaques: A Mother and Daughter Face Alzheimers (a memoir), and three anthologies she edited. She lives in Memphis, TN.

John and Mary Margaret is a rare insider’s look into the white privilege bubble of a young girl growing up in Jackson, Mississippi and participating in sorority life on the Ole Miss campus in the late 1960s. But it’s also a candid portrayal of a young Black boy from Memphis who follows his dream to study law at the predominantly white university. What happens when their shared love for literature blossoms into an ill-fated romance? Spanning five decades of historical civil rights events in Mississippi and Memphis, John and Mary Margaret’s story will challenge the status quo and give us another opportunity to examine our history and our hearts.