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Virginia Boyd reads and signs One Fell Swoop

Davis-Kidd Booksellers

August 12, 2008

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The aftershocks of a murder-suicide resonate through a small town where everybody knows everybody else's business. By turns hilarious and poignant, Virginia Boyd's daring, debut novel, One Fell Swoop, begins with the violent end of a marriage. A local wife-and-mother has killed her husband after finding him in the midst of an affair. Each chapter, written from a different community member's point of view, shows the ripple effect of that dramatic event and how it has affected the townspeople differently--some directly and others less so, but all meaningfully and irrevocably. As the novel progresses, the narrative spirals inward until the stories of those most intimately involved are ultimately revealed.

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  August 12, 2008

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  Tuesday 7:00pm

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  2121 Green Hills Village Drive, Suite 281 Nashville, TN 37215

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