Biography

Matthew Griffin is a graduate of the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and he worked for several years as Assistant to the Director of Highlander Research and Education Center, a renowned hub of grassroots organizing for social justice throughout the South and Appalachia. He was born and raised in North Carolina and now lives with his husband and too many pets in New Orleans, Louisiana, where he teaches at Tulane University. Hide is his first novel.

Schedule

10 a.m. to 10:45 a.m.
State Capitol, Senate Chamber
Book Talk
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11 a.m. to 11:45 a.m.
Barnes & Noble Bookselling Tent
Book Signing

Hide: A Novel

ABA Indies Introduce Pick
Indie Next List Selection
Amazon Best of the Month Book

Wendell and Frank meet at the end of World War II, when Frank returns home to their North Carolina town. Soon he's loitering around Wendell's taxidermy shop, and the two come to understand their connection as love-a love that, in this time and place, can hold real danger. Cutting nearly all ties with the rest of the world, they make a home for themselves on the outskirts of town, a string of beloved dogs for company. Wendell cooks, Frank cares for the yard, and together they enjoy the vicarious drama of courtroom TV.

But when Wendell finds Frank lying outside among their tomatoes at the age of eighty-three, he feels a new threat to their careful self-reliance. As Frank's physical strength and his memory deteriorate, the two of them must fully confront the sacrifices they've made for each other-and the impending loss of the life they've built.

Tender, gently funny, and gorgeously rendered, Hide is a love story of rare power.