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The Barefoot Followers of Sweet Potato Grace with Megan Okonsky
Get ready for your first Spring read! Megan and Hayden are going to be chatting quirky fiction and salvation in the store!
About the Book:
Tombstone, Texas, has never seen anything like the barefoot travelers who barrel in one afternoon, looking like they just stepped out of the seventies. They appear right in the middle of Pinky Elizabeth Swear’s eulogy for her beloved rescue cat, Sweet Potato Grace (may she rest in eternal peace and abundance of goat cheese). To be honest, Pinky is relieved at the interruption. She’d planned to use the second half of her eulogy to come out of the closet. Now, she doesn’t have to.
Are the newcomers a circus troupe? Revolutionaries? A sinister cult? While the town grows suspicious and rumor mills churn, Pinky finds herself drawn to the charisma of the barefoot strangers. Perhaps, she starts to think, the wrath of Tombstone is a thing worth risking in order to be true to oneself.
About the Author:
Megan Okonsky is a ghostwriter, novelist, and murder mystery party host. Known for her conversational voice and wit, Okonsky specializes in helping business leaders uncover their “hero’s journey.” As a novelist, she writes about cats and queer joy. Okonsky is a proud member of the Writers’ League of Texas and the Association of Ghostwriters. She lives in Austin, Texas, with her wife and their cat, Funny Business.
Hayden Casey (he/him) is a writer and musician who lives and teaches in Phoenix, AZ. He holds an MFA in Fiction from Arizona State University. His short story collection, Show Me Where the Hurt Is, is forthcoming from Split/Lip Press in spring 2025, and his novel, A Harvest of Furies, is forthcoming from Lanternfish Press in fall 2025. His short fiction has appeared in Witness, West Branch, Bat City Review, and elsewhere, and his long-form work has been longlisted for the Dzanc Books Prize for Fiction and the Palette Chapbook prize for poetry. Find him at open_in_newhaydencasey.co.
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