AUTHOR EVENTS AUG. 1-6

Amy Jo Burns, “Shiner.” On a lush mountaintop trapped in time, two women vow to protect each other at all costs, and a young girl must defy her father to survive. Burns’ smoldering debut novel reveals the hidden story behind two generations’ worth of Appalachian heartbreak and resolve. In conversation with Patti Callahan Henry. 6:30 p.m. Aug. 4. Talk on Zoom. $5. FoxTale Book Shoppe hosts. foxtalebookshoppe.com

Natasha Trethewey, “Memorial Drive: A Daughter’s Memoir.” Pulitzer Prize– winning poet Trethewey (“Native Guard”) was 19 when her former stepfather shot and killed her mother. In her new memoir, she explores this profound experience of pain, loss, and grief and the way her own life has been shaped by a legacy of fierce love and resilience. In conversation with GPB’s Virginia Prescott. 7 p.m. Aug. 4. Discussion on Zoom. Free. Atlanta History Center hosts. www.atlantahistorycenter.com

Grace Elizabeth Hale, “Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture.” Hale (“A Nation of Outsiders”), who experienced the Athens music scene as a student, small-business owner, and band member, reconstructs the networks of bands, artists and friends to show how an unlikely cast of characters in an unlikely place made a surprising and beautiful new world — and transformed American culture. In conversation with GPB’s Virginia Prescott. 7 p.m. Aug. 6. Discussion on Zoom. Free. Atlanta History Center hosts. www.atlantahistorycenter.com

Odie Lindsey, “Some Go Home.” In a richly textured, depiction of both the American South and our cultural legacy, Lindsey follows three generations of a family fractured by murder in fictional Pitchlynn, Mississippi, in a story that complicates notions of race, class, history and identity. 7 p.m. Aug. 6. Talk on Zoom. Free. Eagle Eye hosts. eagleeyebooks.com