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Writing, Reading, Far to Go
This Mother’s Day the mamas of SYBELIA DRIVE—Eva, Minnie, and Lillian—are sitting together in lawn chairs by the lake, little paper umbrellas in their drinks. It’s cool in the shade, and they’re laughing and laughing. Want to join them? 🌸🍹🌴☀️
Buy your own mama and yourself a copy 💕
“Sybelia Drive is the sort of book that leaves me feeling that everyone should know about – it deserves to be widely read and loved. It’s a lyrical, intelligent, probing book that also hums with the comfort of friendship and connection, and moves along at a rhythmically soothing pace. It is subtle but also surprising, written with a lightness of touch and a depth of feeling that left me feeling changed.” - Ellie Hawkes of Elspells Book Blog
In her beautiful review of Sybelia Drive, Ellie Hawkes notes how challenging it is to respond to a novel she loves “so fiercely.” Not only is her response engaging and comprehensive, it is the most amazing and rewarding kind of acknowledgment a writer might ever hope to receive. Gratitude for her generous praise and for her invitation to other readers to “seek out” and read the novel themselves!
To read the entire review, visit Elspell’s Book Blog. To purchase a copy of Sybelia Drive, visit Braddock Avenue Books.
Gratitude and so much more to Chris Harding Thornton for her phenomenal review of Sybelia Drive! Featured in Center for Literary Publishing’s April 2021 Book Reviews, the review shares a beautifully written and thoughtful account of what lies within the novel’s pages. CLP is home to Colorado Review, where Sybelia Drive’s chapter, “Rock Salt and Rabbit,” was published in their 2016 Fall/Winter Issue, featured on their website, and read aloud on the CR Podcast. Beyond thankful for everyone at CLP and Colorado Review for all their contributions to the literary world and in support of Sybelia Drive.
It’s April 6th and already six months have flown by since SYBELIA DRIVE’s October 6th publication! Celebrating this half-year anniversary with a split of champagne and half of an individual key lime tart!
So much has happened, and I’m looking forward to upcoming events of a first-time online book club gathering, participation with an online panel of debut novelists at the 2021 Ohioana Book Festival (April 23-25), and an online conversation with author William Lychack at White Whale Books (May 13 at 7 pm ET). Registration links to come on the Events page!
With gratitude to all who’ve read and loved the novel and in hopes of many more finding the novel and purchasing their own copies! And always in awe and celebration of libraries, I’m happy to announce that the Columbus Metropolitan Library (Columbus, Ohio) will also have copies of SYBELIA DRIVE available in coming months. If anyone out there loves and wants to share LuLu and Rainey’s story, reach out and request your own libraries to purchase copies. Everyone in the fictional town of Anna Clara will love y’all for it!
Heavy Feather Review - “A Retrospective Viewpoint” - an interview by Bailey Bujnosek
“Karin Cecile Davidson’s Sybelia Drive traces the turbulent coming of age of Lulu, Rainey, and Saul in a Florida lake town rocked by the Vietnam War. Told through a multitude of voices, the novel weaves stories of absent fathers, detached mothers, rebellious children, and grieving neighbors, all reevaluating the lives they’ve made. Davidson’s debut explores universal themes of childhood, loss, and what it means to be a family through compelling characters and beautiful imagery.”
Thunder & Lightning - Flora - Kauai, 2008 - by Karin Cecile Davidson
