Holding on to Nothing

• Successful first novel now in paperback: Named One of the Most Anticipated Books of Fall 2019 by The Millions, named one of the 25 Books to read in the second half of 2019 by The Week, and named one of the 5 Hottest Debuts of Fall 2019 by The Writer
• New readers’ guide included in paperback edition
• Themes of this novel-low-opportunity rural areas, guns, and alcoholism--remain exceedingly relevant.
• Author was a favorite among booksellers and readers, and many have expressed interest in a paperback.

Elizabeth Chiles Shelburne grew up reading, writing, and shooting in East Tennessee. After graduating from Amherst College, she became a writer and a staff editor at the Atlantic Monthly. Her nonfiction work has been published in the Atlantic Monthly, Boston Globe, and Globalpost, among others. She worked on this novel in Grub Street’s year-long Novel Incubator course, under Michelle Hoover and Lisa Borders. Her essay on how killing a deer made her a feminist was published in Click! When We Knew We Were Feminists (http: //bit.ly/2uOKXgB), edited by Courtney E. Martin and J. Courtney Sullivan. She lives outside Boston with her husband and four children.