Electric City Currents ~ Leigh Ann Ruggiero, Author of ”Unfollowers” - 2021 Juniper Prize for Fiction Winner

Today on Electric City Currents, Gabriel is joined by Leigh Ann Ruggiero, author of "Unfollowers," which won the 2021 Juniper Prize For Fiction and will be released on March 25, 2022 by the University of Massachusetts Press. 
https://www.umasspress.com/9781625346407/unfollowers/

LEIGH ANN RUGGIERO earned an MFA from the University of Maryland before moving to Montana, where she teaches literature, writing, and film at Great Falls College. She was a finalist for the 2019 Ohio Writers’ Association’s Great Novel Contest. We talk about the book, her writing process, teaching (and learning), her journey to Great Falls and the journey of creativity. Then we wrap up the show with a reading of the beginning of "Unfollowers."

DESCRIPTION OF THE BOOK - Barb Matheson doesn’t fit in: not on the Standing Rock Reservation where her mother was born; not at the mission in rural Ethiopia where she grew up; and certainly not at the Pennsylvania church where her husband preaches. Expansive and lyrical, Unfollowers is a tale of religious angst, unrequited love, and the upheaval of racial and economic privilege. Equally adrift on both sides of the Atlantic, Barb must negotiate the distance between white America and Africa, between the spirituality of her ancestors and the straight tones of evangelicalism, and between rules and grace.

To Purchase or find out more about "Unfollowers", visit this link:

https://www.umasspress.com/9781625346407/unfollowers/