SWIMMING BETWEEN WORLDS, Elaine Neil Orr
From the critically acclaimed writer of A Different Sun, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American civil rights movement… One of Buzzfeed’s “7 coming-of-age tales to pick up this April” (Berkley/April 2018) Tacker Hart left his home in North Carolina as a local high school […]
SWIMMING BETWEEN WORLDS, Elaine Neil Orr
From the critically acclaimed writer of A Different Sun, a Southern coming-of-age novel that sets three very different young people against the tumultuous years of the American civil rights movement… “A perceptive and powerful story told with generosity and grace. The struggle of its deftly-drawn young characters to navigate the monumental changes—cultural and personal—that the […]
Orr
The author of six books, Elaine Neil Orr was born and grew up among the forests and rivers of Southwestern Nigeria. Her explorations of home and exile and spiritual connection are rooted in those rich formative years. She comes to the American South by way of that other South in West Africa. After devoting herself […]
It’s a Book Tree!
Thanks to Elaine Orr for posting this fabulous photo on Facebook from BookMarks Book Festival in Winston-Salem, North Carolina. Best of all, it features Elaine’s novel, A DIFFERENT SUN. I’m tempted to recreate a book tree at home. No falling needles to worry about! –Joelle Delbourgo
To Blurb or Not to Blurb? Elaine Neil Orr
Author Elaine Neil Orr (Author of A Different Sun: A Novel of Africa and Gods of Noonday: A White Girl’s African Life) offered us this guest post on blurbing, and other thoughts of generosity after your book comes out. Thank you, Elaine! Subsequent to my first book’s appearance (a memoir), I began to receive requests for […]
A DIFFERENT SUN Book Club
Debut novelist Elaine Neil Orr has been very busy promoting her gorgeous novel about a missionary in the pre-Civil War South who goes to Africa. Inspired by the diary of an actual missionary, A DIFFERENT SUN has been getting rave reviews. Elaine, who teaches literature at North Carolina State University, sent in this wonderful photo […]
Elaine Neil Orr at Quail Ridge Books, Raleigh, NC
Last night, April 9, Elaine Neil Orr launched A Different Sun (Berkley/Penguin), a novel about a young missionary woman who leaves her parent’s plantation to accompany her missionary husband to Africa, at a wonderful independent bookstore in Raleigh, Quail Ridge Books. Orr, who was born in Nigeria, where much of the novel takes place, was […]