Anesa Miller to Appear at Ohio Author Fair August 17, 2024
“Rejecting simplistic stereotypes, Miller invites readers to probe beyond immediate impressions. A compassionate, thoughtful narrative about hard-won self-realizations.”
— Kirkus Reviews
Anesa Miller, author of I Never Do This, will appear at the Ohio Author Fair in Canal Fulton, OH on August 17th from 11am-2pm, where she’ll be doing a meet and greet and book signings!
EVENT LOCATION:
154 Market St NE
Canal Fulton, OH 44614
Find more information about Miller’s appearance and the Ohio Author Fair here: https://www.canalfultonlibrary.org/
About I Never Do This:
LaDene Faye Howell has spent her life in the small town of Devola, on an oxbow of the Muskingum River, in southeast Ohio. Her family is conservative and deeply religious, although another branch of the Howell clan are notorious criminals. When one of her outlaw relatives returns from prison, LaDene hopes the two of them may share an evening of fun, or even a spark of romance. Instead, Bobby Frank embroils her in kidnapping their old high school principal.
Taken into custody, LaDene recounts her misadventures in the form of a dramatic monologue. Pledging to “tell all in full truth so help me God,” she hopes to keep herself out of jail and perhaps even soften
Bobby’s likely sentence. She aims to capture her listeners’ sympathy by recounting a history she has never shared before: her teenage pregnancy and confinement at an unforgiving evangelical facility for wayward girls.
The heart of the story is LaDene’s struggle to live as her own person while remaining true to her heritage and family loyalties. With country noir flair, it touches on spiritual abuse, addiction, family entanglements, and the disenfranchisement of women and young people in fundamentalist settings.
About Anesa Miller:
Anesa Miller is a native of Wichita, Kansas, a graduate of the University of Idaho, a long-term resident of Ohio, and recipient of an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship for creative writing. Her fiction, essays, and poetry have appeared widely, and her previous novel, Our Orbit, was a finalist in regional fiction in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards.
