A Book Launch featuring Marilyn Mascaro

517 Union Avenue,Knoxville TN 37902

02 May, 2023

Description

Union Ave Books presents a book launch featuring Marilyn Mascaro and her new title, WHEN THE RIVERS FLOWED, on May 2nd, 2023 at 6 pm. While this is a free event, we ask that you register for your spot. ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Marilyn Layman Mascaro is an educator, traveler, and East Tennessee native. Enamored with all written forms, her poetry has been published in Bloodroot, the Caney Creek Sampler, and ABZ: A Poetry Magazine. She has published essays and a narrative nonfiction book, Surviving History: The Life of B.Y. Harris in East Tennessee. A former associate professor at Roane State Community College, she has a Bachelor of Science in Education and a Master of Arts in English from the University of Tennessee. Mascaro’s newest work, When the Rivers Flowed, focuses on Knoxville, Tennessee in the early twentieth century. ABOUT THE BOOK: One winter morning in 1918, Earl Layman climbed to the top of a grain silo and peered across the frozen landscape toward Knoxville, Tennessee. He saw his future there, not dependent on the cows below him. With a war going on, jobs were plentiful, and Earl left the farm to gamble his future on the nearby town. Knoxville also attracted Marie Little, a tenant-farmer's daughter who became an adult at age fourteen. From this inauspicious beginning, she blossomed into a bobbed-hair, Charleston-dancing, independent woman. Months before the 1929 stock market crash, the two met and began married life with their flaws firmly hidden. When the Rivers Flowed: An Ambitious Hillbilly and a Southern Flapper Discover Knoxville, Tennessee tells the story of these two young people. A documented history that uses literary techniques such as plot and characterization, it addresses subjects such as Knoxville's riot of 1919, the energetic 1920's, and the era's ongoing prejudice against Appalachian people. It does so by recounting the true stories of ordinary Americans who encountered the extraordinary events of their time.