TUPELO HONEY is the WINNER of NINE BOOK AWARDS including:
A 2020 Independent Press Award WINNER for New Fiction!
'Gritty, superbly written and packed full of unforgettable
characters. A FINALIST and highly recommended.'
~ The Wishing Shelf Book Awards
A loveable, engaging, original voice, Tupelo brightens this accomplished tale of dysfunction in a family where “nothing had ever been right.”
~ Publishers Weekly ~
From the delicious title, (the spunky 11-year-old narrator
was named after Elvis' birthplace) to every unconventional character and
careful detail, Tupelo Honey is a delight. Set in rural Mississippi, with a
cast of colorful southerners, it stars one dysfunctional family at the center
of which is Tupelo Honey. Author Lis Anna-Langston gets into the head of her
title girl completely, taking readers on a ride of a sort of haunted but
beautiful mess. To paraphrase Tolstoy, it is the unhappy families that are
unique -- and by definition, often more interesting. Tupelo Honey does not have
an easy life, on the surface. Her mother is a drug addict, and mental illness
lingers in her grandmother Marmalade's house like a hot humid August cloud. Yet
Anna-Langston still fills it with gems. It is certainly not a dull life, one
full of heartbreaks big and small, but this tough sweet girl pulls it off with
aplomb. It is a treat from start to end. Langston has written rich, vivid
characters, and painted a vibrant mosaic of a year in one young southern girl's
life. It is a hard book to put down, and one you will not want to end. I envy
its future readers.~ Teresa DiFalco ©2016 Parents' Choice ~When you read more
than a hundred books per year, it’s exciting to find one that surprises you.
"Tupelo Honey" by Lis Anna Langston is one of those, sneaking up
quietly to bust expectations and leaves you thinking about the story long after
closing the book. ~ Chanticleer Book Reviews ~
Lis Anna-Langston is a Parents' Choice Gold Book Award winner, a Moonbeam Children's Book Award winner and the Dante Rossetti First Place Award winner for YA Fiction. She is the author of Tupelo Honey, Skinny Dipping in a Dirty Pond and the short story collection, The End of the Century. Born in the South she loves writing about misfits, screw-ups, outlaws and people who generally do not fit into nicely labeled boxes. She loves zany, wild rides and is the recipient of many awards including; a two time Pushcart nominee, a five time World Fest winner, Telluride Indie Fest winner, Helene Wurlitzer Grant recipient, New Century Writers winner, a finalist in the prestigious William Faulkner Competition, & Second Place Winner of the Thomas Wolfe Fiction Award. She writes Young Adult, New Adult and Middle Grade novels and loves every second of it. Her fiction has been published in Word Riot, The Blotter, Petigru Review, Hot Metal Press, The Smoking Poet, Eclectic Flash Literary Journal, Paper Skin Glass Bones, 491 Magazine, Fiction Fix, The Monarch Review, 5x5 Literary Magazine, Red Booth Review, Hint Fiction Anthology, Chamber Four Literary Magazine, Emyrs Journal, Literary Laundry, Barely South Review, Flash Fiction Offensive, Flash quake Literary Journal, Steel Toe Review, Cactus Heart Press, Empty Sink Publishing, Prick of the Spindle Literary Review, Per Contra, Storyacious, Gravel Literary, Bedlam Publishing, The Merrimack Review, Vine Leaves Literary Journal, KaaterskillBasin Journal, Sand Hill Review, Conclave. Milk Journal and The MacGuffin Literary Review. You can learn more about her at
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