Steve Yates "Teeth of the Souls" Book Talk and Signing March 26 at Library Center
March 6, 2015 —
Author and Springfield native Steve Yates will talk about his new release, “The Teeth of the Souls,” at 7 p.m. Thursday, March 26, in meeting room B of the Library Center, 4653 S. Campbell Ave.The author will sign his books, available for purchase that night.
This sequel to “Morkan’s Quarry,” also set in Civil War-era Springfield, begins just after the war and tells of a marriage betrayed, a lifelong and secret love and an Ozarks city riven by an Easter lynching.
Leighton Shea Morkan, son of Irish immigrants, chooses a marriage of land and convenience with the daughter of a German banking family. Yet his heart belongs to his childhood friend and wartime confidante, the house hand and former slave, Judith. Both unions produce children, one a shrouded secret, and one the heir to the Morkan fortune—the limestone quarries of Springfield, Mo., and the bloody legacy of the past, what Judith calls “The Teeth of the Souls.”
Yates is the Juniper Prize-winning author of “Some Kinds of Love: Stories” (University of Massachusetts Press 2013).
Yates is currently the assistant director/marketing director at University Press of Mississippi in Jackson. He lives in Flowood with his wife Tammy.
Daniel Woodrell, author of “The Maid’s Version: A Novel,” “Winter’s Bone” and many more, said: “Steve Yates searches out the hidden stories from our regional history. Those events that were murky in the shadows, forgotten, or simply not spoken about, are in his hands turned into powerful and fresh fiction. Yates has scope to his ambitions, and talent to match. An exciting new voice.”