In Conversation with Scott Gould

Join us in conversation with award-winning Southern author Scott Gould for his newest title Beneath A Fallen Sky. ABOUT THE BOOK: May 1910. As Halley’s Comet hurtles toward Earth, panic grips the mountains of northeast Alabama. Experts predict the end of all life, and in Fort Payne, four townsfolk face their final days.Charlie McCracken continues his mail route up Sand Mountain, caring for an elderly Cherokee woman who escaped the Trail of Tears. His aunt Zona baptizes terrified townsfolk for a quarter each, preaching her improvised scripture. Sheriff Tyus Wetley struggles to hold his anxious town– and his marriage– together, while brothel madam Elva Shugart seeks redemption as the heavens prepare to fall.Over four harrowing days, their paths collide in unexpected and sometimes violent ways. Beneath a Fallen Sky is a sweeping, unforgettable portrait of fear, faith, and the resilience of hope when the world seems poised to end. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Scott is the author of six additional books, including Peace lIke a River, Whereabouts, The Hammerhead Chronicles (winner of the Eric Hoffer Award for Fiction), Things That Crash, Things That Fly (winner of 2022 Memoir Prize for Books), as well as the story collections, Strangers to Temptation and Idiot Men. His other honors include a Next Generation Indie Book Award, an IPPY Award for Fiction, the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the S.C. Arts Commission Artist Fellowship in Prose. He lives in Sans Souci, South Carolina and recently retired from the S.C. Governor’s School for the Arts & Humanities.