Tombolo Books welcomes award-winning authors Jessica Handler and Ginger Pinholster to discuss their latest novels,\u00a0The World To See\u00a0and\u00a0The Train To Santa Fe!\u00a0<\/p>\n
Handler’s\u00a0The World To See\u00a0is “a fascinating look at how sexual identity, visibility, and women\u2019s issues changed during the turbulent 1950s to 1970s in America.” (Vanessa Briscoe Hay, singer, Pylon, Supercluster, and Pylon Reenactment Society, \u201cOne of the 25 Best Frontwomen of All Time\u201d)<\/p>\n
Inspired by historical accounts, Pinholster’s\u00a0The Train to Santa Fe\u00a0imagines the impact of the railroad\u2019 s arrival in northern New Mexico, tracing one family\u2019 s story across generations. It\u2019 s a powerful tale of cultural loss, love, and the quiet resilience of the human spirit.<\/p>\n
More about\u00a0The World We See<\/p>\n
When teenager Nadine Harvey helps her best friend hide a disturbing secret, she\u2019 s also concealing her own deepest truth: she\u2019 ll do almost anything to be wanted. Five years and three thousand miles later, Nadine is thrilled when her idol, Celeste\u2014 a rock singer known as \u201c the oracle\u201d \u2014 befriends her.<\/p>\n
As Celeste\u2019 s career begins to falter, she launches a bold program encouraging women to speak their truths. Nadine eagerly becomes her business partner, but as their ambitions clash, their alliance starts to unravel. Determined to hide their growing rift, Celeste and Nadine invite their mothers to a high-profile awards gala. When painful histories resurface, each woman must confront how she sees herself\u2014 and how the world sees her.<\/p>\n
More about\u00a0The Train to Santa Fe<\/p>\n
In the 1880s, sixteen-year-old Chenoa, a gifted Tewa potter, boards one of the first trains from Espa\u00f1 ola to Santa Fe, desperate to save her family from a bitter winter. Her journey sets in motion a legacy shaped by survival, sacrifice, and silence. Generations later, her granddaughter Rose, now elderly and ailing, pleads with Jonah\u2014 a kind-hearted nursing home orderly\u2014 to help uncover the truth of her stolen Native heritage before it\u2019 s lost forever.<\/p>\n
As Jonah searches for answers, he grapples with his own struggles: raising his young son and falling for Jemi, a wounded veteran who longs to return to Bluebird Mountain. As their lives intersect, long-buried truths rise to the surface, revealing the enduring scars of colonization\u2014 and the strength required to heal.<\/p>\n
Jessica Handler’s\u00a0novel The Magnetic Girl was awarded the 2020 Southern Book Prize. She is the author of the memoir, Invisible Sisters, and the craft guide, Braving the Fire: A Guide to Writing About Grief and Loss. Her writing has appeared on NPR, in Tin House, The Bitter Southerner, Brevity, Creative Nonfiction, the Washington Post, Oldster, and elsewhere. She lives in Atlanta with her husband, author Mickey Dubrow. www.jessicahandler.com.<\/p>\n
Pushcart Prize nominee\u00a0Ginger Pinholster\u2014 an avid volunteer with Florida\u2019 s Volusia Turtle Patrol and the Marine Science Center\u2014 earned her M.F.A. degree from Queens University of Charlotte. Her second novel, Snakes of St. Augustine, was called \u201c relentlessly beautiful and compelling.\u201d In 2024, Pinholster received a first-place fiction prize from Prime Number Magazine. City in a Forest, her first novel, won a gold Florida Writers Association award. A science writer for nearly four decades, she is an elected fellow of the American Association for the Advancement of Science.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tombolo Books welcomes award-winning authors Jessica Handler and Ginger Pinholster to discuss their latest novels,\u00a0The World To See\u00a0and\u00a0The…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":362663,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[202,204,203,199,201,200],"class_list":["post-362662","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-st-petersburg","tag-st-pete","tag-st-pete-headlines","tag-st-pete-news","tag-st-petersburg","tag-st-petersburg-headlines","tag-st-petersburg-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362662","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=362662"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/362662\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/362663"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=362662"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=362662"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-fl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=362662"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}