Charles Frazier to read at Malaprop’s

Saw this in the Malaprop’s store window. It’s kinda hard to read. What you need to know – Frazier will be reading at Malaprop’s on Oct. 14. He’ll be reading from his new book, thirteen moons, which will be released in a couple of weeks.

This will be one of the biggest book releases of this fall, and the book buzz is starting to build. Here’s a snippet from Jim Buchanan’s column in the Asheville Citizen-Times today (Buchanan has an advance copy of the book):

I never developed a taste for vino, and never understood the language surrounding it. Words like complexity, depth, character, etc., never rang really true to me when discussing fermented grapes.

Just a few pages into “thirteen moons,’’ I got it.

There are things so masterful that words can’t do them justice. Frazier’s writing falls in that category. But more importantly, with “Cold Mountain’’ and now with “thirteen moons,’’ he’s doing important work in filling the gaps, helping restore the roots, of our knowledge of our own history.

He captures snapshots of people and places that still echo here today, sometimes faintly, sometimes growing louder with cultural revivals like the efforts taking place in Cherokee.