Acquisition: New literary fiction by THE QUELLING author Barbara Barrow
Lanternfish Press is pleased to announce the acquisition of Barbara Barrow’s second novel, An Unclean Place, for publication in Spring 2023.
Dawn and her best friend Amber are students at Stillwater School, an experimental academy that’s the laughingstock of Atlanta. When Ms. Ella arrives to teach the eighth grade, she shakes up the school with her radical ideas and violent discipline, building an enthusiastic following and even winning the loyalty of rebellious Dawn.
The imprint she leaves on her students is both profound and damaging, long after scandal shuts down the school and leads to Ms. Ella’s arrest. Dawn pursues a destructive path into Ms. Ella’s family, while Amber embraces a solitary, bookish life. Years later, after Dawn’s mysterious death, Amber sets off to find her estranged former teacher. In the process, she uncovers a shocking story of narcissism, art, betrayal, and murder.
Barbara Barrow is the author of The Quelling (Lanternfish Press, 2018), which was selected as a Gold Winner for Literary Fiction in the Foreword Indies Awards. Her short stories have appeared or are forthcoming in Faultline, Southern Humanities Review, Raleigh Review, Cimarron Review, and elsewhere.
Follow Barbara on Twitter @bannbarrow, on Instagram @b.a.barrow, or find her online at barbarabarrow.com.
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