Author Event with E.H. Jacobs

"Malcom Douglas runs from a convenience store.

Officer Mike Hargreaves orders the young Black man to stop, but Malcolm raises his hand and Officer Hargreaves shoots him, only to realize that Malcolm's 'weapon' was a hot dog, not a gun.

In small-town Louisiana, the shooting of a Black teen by a white cop threatens to divide not only the community, but the South at large, and potentially the country thanks to a shadowy white nationalist organization and politicians not unfamiliar with scandal.

Mounting violence, a movement for an independent Black nation-state, and a court battle challenging interpretations of the Second Amendment may divide the United States forever.

Will a cast of unlikely heroes-- a grieving mother, an institutionalized spouse of a high-ranking official, a Supreme Court justice and a journalist looking for her own redemption-- heal the chasms?"

E.H. Jacobs is a New England-based psychologist and writer. His debut novel, Splintered River—a literary political drama—was published this fall. He holds a bachelor's degree from Vassar College and a Ph.D. in Psychology from Temple University. His work (short stories, poetry, memoir) has appeared in Hippocampus, Penstricken, The Writers’ Journal, Libre, Glacial Hills Review, Best of Choeofpleirn Press, Streetlight Magazine 2019 and 2021 Anthologies, Abandoned Mine, Coneflower Café, Santa Fe Literary Review, Permafrost Magazine, Hawaii Pacific Review, Storgy Magazine, Streetlight Magazine, Aji Magazine, Bryant Literary Review, The Bluebird Word, and Smoky Quartz.

He has participated in fiction and poetry workshops with the Kenyon Review, Carve Magazine and Tupelo Press. He has published two books on parenting, professional papers in psychology, and articles for the general public on psychological topics, and he has been a contributing book review editor for the American Journal of Psychotherapy. He has served on the clinical faculty of Harvard Medical School. He was a finalist in the Derick Burleson Poetry and the Phil Heldrich Nonfiction Contests and was a nominee for the Nina Riggs Poetry Award.

His work can be seen at www.ehjacobsauthor.com and at Bookery Manchester!

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