Description: Judith Turner-Yamamoto is an award-winning author, poet, and journalist whose debut novel Loving the Dead and Gone is the 2023 Independent Publisher Book Awards Gold Medalist for South-Best Regional Fiction.
Close novel about events reviews / interviews press book clubs contact LOVING THE DEAD AND GONE by JUDITH TURNER-YAMAMOTO 2023 GOLD MEDALIST, INDEPENDENT PUBLISHER BOOK AWARDS (IPPYS): SOUTH- BEST REGIONAL FICTION 2023 ERIC HOFFER BOOK AWARDS Grand Prize, Short List GENERAL FICTION, Honorable Mention First Horizon Debut Novel Award, Finalist “ How well Turner-Yamamoto understands the complexities of passion, the necessity of work, and the limits of small towns. This beautifully written novel, with its com
— Margot Livesey , Author of The Boy in The Field, the New York Times Book Review 100 Notable Books 2019, and the New York Times Best Seller The Flight of Gemma Hardy
“ Turner-Yamamoto’s bittersweet fantastical debut involves the parallel stories of two grieving women… As Aurilla says near the end, ‘Loving the dead and gone was the sweetest love of all.’ Reading this story is almost as delectable.”