The Atlanta Journal-Constitution

This week’s literary events

- Gina Webb for the AJC

Gin Phillips, “Fierce

Kingdom.” In Phillips’s gripping new novel, a woman’s routine trip to the zoo with her son becomes an electrifyi­ng race to escape a sniper, using survival skills she never realized she had: the everyday routines of motherhood. 6:30 p.m. July 25. Talk, reading, Q&A, signing. Free. FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E. Main St., Woodstock, 770516-9989, foxtaleboo­kshoppe.com Carapace: Sour Grapes. Bring a true story five to seven minutes long about your best sour-grapes experience: is there a job you wanted but didn’t get, a person you still want but wish you didn’t? 7 p.m. July 25. Storytelli­ng. Free. Manuel’s Tavern, 602 N. Highland Ave. Atlanta, 404525-3447, manuelstav­ern.com/ Lawrence Wright,“The Terror Years: From Al-Qaeda

to the Islamic State.” Wright (“The Looming Tower”) draws on previous articles for this unifying recollecti­on of the roots of contempora­ry Middle Eastern terrorism, a study of how it has grown and metastasiz­ed, and where

terrorism might take us yet. 8 p.m. July 26. Talk, signing. $10. Atlanta History Center, 130 West Paces Ferry Road NW., Atlanta, 404-814-4150, atlantahis­torycenter.com Vanessa Grubbs, “Hundreds of Interlaced Fingers: A Kidney Doctor’s Search for

the Perfect Match.” Shaped by Grubbs’s remarkable experience­s as a doctor, a woman of color, a mother, and a kidney donor, her memoir is a love story, an exposé, and a call for us all to consider the dualities of both loving and letting go. 7 p.m. July 27. Signing. Free. Eagle Eye Book

Shop, 2076 N. Decatur Road, Decatur, 404-486-0307, eagleeyebo­oks.com Lauren Karcz, “The Gallery

of Unfinished Girls.” A stalled artist who sees curious signs that her creative block might be about to end, must eventually choose between a perfect world of art and truth and a much messier reality. 7:30 p.m. July 28. Launch, reading, Q&A, signing. Free. $5 suggested donation. Charis Books & More, 1189 Euclid Ave NE., Atlanta, 404-524-0304, charisbook­sandmore.com

Joy Callaway, “Secret Sisters” and Ricki Schultz,

“Mr. Right Swipe.” Callaway (“The Fifth Avenue Artists Society”) returns with an unforgetta­ble historical novel based on the founding of the country’s first sororities. Schultz’s wry debut speaks to anyone who’s ever been on a bad date. 2 p.m. July 29. Signing. Free. FoxTale Book Shoppe, 105 E. Main St., Woodstock, 770-516-9989, foxtaleboo­kshoppe.com/ events/

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