The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush with Susan Gregg Gilmore

Name: The Curious Calling of Leonard Bush with Susan Gregg Gilmore
Start: 2025-09-18T18:00:00-04:00
Location: 1307 E Cary St, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23219

Schedule

Thu, 18 Sep, 2025 at 06:00 pm

UTC-04:00

Location

1307 E Cary St, Richmond, VA, United States, Virginia 23219 | Richmond, VA

Susan is a friend of the store and we're so excited to have her back to chat with Kelly!
About the Book:
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.
About the Author:
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.
About the Moderator:
Kelly is our fearless leader and an omnivore of a reader who will try almost any type of book at least once. She has been an indie bookseller since 1989, came to Fountain in 2000, and took over in 2008. She has served on countless bookseller boards and committees nationally and internationally but recently has scaled back on those activities to spend more time on the bookstore and personal passions like travel, cooking, and being with important people in her life and the cat.