The Kingdoms of Savannah by George Dawes Green (Author Signed)

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Bibliographic Details

• Author: George Dawes Green
• Title: The Kingdoms of Savannah
• Publisher: ‎ Celadon Books; First Edition (July 19, 2022)
• Language: ‎ English
• Format: Hardcover – 289 pages
• ISBN-10: ‎ 125076744X
• ISBN-13: ‎ 978-1250767448
• Item Weight: ‎ 1.10 pounds
• Dimensions: ‎ 6.4 x 1.01 x 9.6 inches
• Book Condition: New / Like New – Excellent (Author Signed)
• Dust Jacket Condition: Excellent
• Edition: First Edition (Author Autographed)

Synopsis:

“Around these parts, the publication of a new George Dawes Green novel is an event. … Green leans all the way into Southern Gothic, but the main grotesquerie is the city’s history, built on the backs of enslaved people. His prose is languid, even luxurious, but at critical moments of suspense, he pares it back to ramp up the terror.”

―New York Times Book Review

Savannah may appear to be “some town out of a fable,” with its vine flowers, turreted mansions, and ghost tours that romanticize the city’s history. But look deeper and you’ll uncover secrets, past and present, that tell a more sinister tale. It’s the story at the heart of George Dawes Green’s chilling new novel, The Kingdoms of Savannah.

It begins quietly on a balmy Southern night as some locals gather at Bo Peep’s, one of the town’s favorite watering holes. Within an hour, however, a man will be murdered and his companion will be “disappeared.” An unlikely detective, Morgana Musgrove, doyenne of Savannah society, is called upon to unravel the mystery of these crimes. Morgana is an imperious, demanding, and conniving woman, whose four grown children are weary of her schemes. But one by one she inveigles them into helping with her investigation, and soon the family uncovers some terrifying truths―truths that will rock Savannah’s power structure to its core.

Moving from the homeless encampments that ring the city to the stately homes of Savannah’s elite, Green’s novel brilliantly depicts the underbelly of a city with a dark history and the strangely mesmerizing dysfunction of a complex family.

About the Author:

George Dawes Green, founder of The Moth and Unchained, is an internationally celebrated author. His first novel, The Caveman’s Valentine, won the Edgar Award and became a motion picture starring Samuel L. Jackson. The Juror was an international bestseller in more than twenty languages and was the basis for the movie starring Demi Moore and Alec Baldwin. Ravens was chosen as one of the best books of 2009 by the Los Angeles Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Daily Mail of London, and many other publications.

George Green grew up in Georgia and now lives in Brooklyn, New York.