Author Susan Gregg Gilmore at Buxton Books

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Mon, 29 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

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160 King St, Charleston, SC 29401, United States | Charleston, SC

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Author Susan Gregg Gilmore joins us at Buxton Books to celebrate her delightful new novel, The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush, a winsome and miracle-making story of a young man who buries his lost leg and saves his whole East Tennessee town!
Please join us for an evening in the bookstore with author Susan Gregg Gilmore as we celebrate her wacky and wonderful new novel, The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush. Susan is as full of character as the cast of her book- which includes a twelve-year-old amputee hosting a funeral for his lost leg, his best friend whose mother happens to be the town prostitute, a Baptist minister full of aspersions he casts freely, and a town in the midst of a collective awakening. That's a lot of character! It's going to be a fun night chatting with Susan about the inspiration for the book and what her writing process, which has gotten her through four novels and countelss articles, looks like.
We hope you'll join us in raising a toast to Susan and The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush at her Buxton Books debut!
This is a free, in-store event. Please RSVP to let us know you're coming here: https://www.buxtonbooks.com/events/3490820250929
About The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush:
Young Leonard Bush buries his lost leg and saves his whole East Tennessee town in this winsome and miracle-making novel.
When twelve-year-old Leonard Bush loses his leg in a freak accident, he decides to give his leg a proper burial in the hilltop cemetery of his East Tennessee town. This event somehow sets off a chain of miraculous and catastrophic events—upending the lives of Leonard’s rigidly God-fearing mother, June; his deeply conflicted father, Emmett; and his best friend, Azalea, and her mother, Rose, who is also the town prostitute. While the local Baptist minister passes judgment on events and promises dire consequences, the people of this small community on the banks of Big Sugar move together toward awakening.
Susan Gilmore’s love of storytelling flows naturally from her Tennessee roots. She’s the daughter of a revival preacher’s son, brought up on the land and streams that populate this novel that is, as Appalachian novelist Lee Smith says, a “homespun Pilgrim’s Progress.”
About Susan Gregg Gilmore:
Susan Gregg Gilmore is the author of the novels The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush, Looking for Salvation at the Dairy Queen, The Improper Life of Bezellia Grove, and The Funeral Dress. She has written for the Chattanooga Times Free Press, the Los Angeles Times and the Christian Science Monitor. Born in Nashville, she lives in Chattanooga, Tennessee, with her husband.
This is a free, in-store event. Please RSVP to let us know you're coming here: https://www.buxtonbooks.com/events/3490820250929
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