Below is an announcement from Wilmington Community Television’s “Book Stew:”
This month’s Book Stew episode features a novel that began with creative writing instructor Jeremy T. Wilson jotting down two seemingly random words: quail man.
Out of that odd combination came his amusing satire of the South, The Quail Who Wore The Shirt. Narrator Lee Hubbs, owner of a fruit and vegetable stand in Charity, GA, that isn’t Stuckey’s or Buc-ees, causes a tragic road accident that takes the life of Valentine, a quail man who showed up in town one day on a yellow bicycle. The fact that a number of Americans had started displaying some physical characteristics of quails, with top feathers emerging from their foreheads and rounded bodies, is no longer a national phenomenon or a matter of concern to anyone. Lee needs to atone by sharing an onion pie with Valentine’s grieving relatives, if he can find any, and if he can do it without admitting his own guilt in the tragedy. Thus begins a road trip and Lee’s comeuppance.
It’s a most unusual story with many hilarious occurrences. This you gotta see (and read).
Eileen MacDougall is the host/producer of 120+ episodes of Book Stew, a web series and podcast originating in 2013, featuring every variety of authors, illustrators, poets, and playwrights, plus a cat that survived a tornado and lived to write about it!
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