Please join the Ozarks Studies Institute, an initiative of the Missouri State University Libraries, on Tuesday evening, March 30, 2021 beginning at 7 p.m. CDT for an online author talk and discussion with novelist Amy Engel. Her most recent book is The Familiar Dark. This online event is free and open to the public. It will be recorded and archived, too.  The novel, set in the mythic Missouri Ozarks small town of Barren Springs, is about the bonds of family…

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In March of 2020 Amy Engel’s murder mystery, The Familiar Dark, was published by Dutton, an imprint of Penguin Random House. The story, set in the mythic Missouri Ozarks small town of Barren Springs, is about the bonds of family — women doing the best they can for their daughters in dire circumstances — as well as a story about how even the darkest and most terrifying places can provide the comfort of home.  Please join us online via Zoom…

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