Posts Tagged: Chris Cander

New Novel by WITS Writer Released

Posted March 17, 2015 & filed under Fiction, News, WITS People.

Author-pic-767x1024Whisper HollowNews to celebrate! Chris Cander’s novel Whisper Hollow is released today! It’s a multi-generational story that focuses on the lives of three women living in a coal-mining town in West Virginia.

 

Kirkus Reviews says, “Cander divinely delves into multiple points of view, crafting a collage of vibrant, layered characters while charting six decades of poignant, precise moments. A distinctive novel that sublimely measures the distressed though determined heartbeat of a small mountain community.”
Order your copy today and check out the touring schedule here. Congrats, Chris!

 

 

Chris Cander at Brazos Book Store

Posted August 15, 2013 & filed under Notebook.

sm_chris_canderMark your calendars today for next Thursday’s reading by WITS writer Chris Cander at Brazos Book Store (2421 Bissonnet Street, Houston, TX, 77005). Her fiction book 11 Stories explores the life of Roscoe Jones, a trumpet prodigy who loses a finger in the elevator of the apartment building where he lives as a child and goes on to become superintendent of the same building as a man. David Eagleman, New York Times bestselling author, calls Cander “a bold new voice in American letters.” Please join us for this special event next Thursday, August 22nd, at 7 PM.