Tara M. Stringfellow has lived in Japan, Italy, Spain, Cuba, Ghana, Missouri, Illinois, Pennsylvania, North Carolina and Virginia, yet her debut novel, “Memphis” is about as Memphis as a book can be. ...

Writing that one word — the name of her city and now the title of her debut novel — was the moment Tara Stringfellow (Weinberg ’07, School of Professional Studies ’18) said she knew she was writing ...

Tara M Stringfellow prefaces this ferocious and compassionate debut with a dedication to George Floyd’s daughter Gianna, who was six when her father was killed by a police officer on a Minneapolis ...

The title and the cover illustration of Memphis leave the reader in no doubt about the fact that race is at the heart of Tara M. Stringfellow’s novel. After all, Memphis, Tennessee, was central to the ...