back cover of The Lakes of Southern Hollow shows a portion of a woman's face. The text is the same as what is duplicated on this webpage.
Screen capture of the title and opening paragraph from Steve Yates Rooted Questionaire on Substack. Here's the link https://open.substack.com/pub/rooted/p/mississippi-transplant-steve-yates

The Lakes of Southern Hollow

(1 customer review)

by Steve Yates

ISBN: 978-1-956440-91-1 paperback $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-956440-92-8 ebook $9.99
266 pp.
July 16, 2024


Casey, Tyndall, and Devon—kids from Southern Hollow subdivision—have been falling in and out of love with each other, and always at the wrong time. It’s a Thursday night in September 2019, their senior year. Anything seems possible. And Casey’s band, New Wave Vultures, packs them in on teen night at the Cedar Shake, a club on the square in downtown Springfield, Missouri. While all three feel trapped in the Ozarks, the coming pandemic is about to show them the grinding limits of true confinement and the power of music, love, friendship, and courage.

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The Lakes of Southern Hollow

Cover for THE LAKES OF SOUTHERN HOLLOW by Steve Yates. Background image is in gray tones with a young woman's face. She could be dead or asleep. The text is runs along he right margin and looks like water in light blue tones.by Steve Yates
ISBN: 978-1-956440-91-1 paperback $24.95
ISBN: 978-1-956440-92-8 ebook $9.99
266 pp.
July 16, 2024


Casey, Tyndall, and Devon—kids from Southern Hollow subdivision—have been falling in and out of love with each other, and always at the wrong time. It’s a Thursday night in September 2019, their senior year. Anything seems possible. And Casey’s band, New Wave Vultures, packs them in on teen night at the Cedar Shake, a club on the square in downtown Springfield, Missouri. While all three feel trapped in the Ozarks, the coming pandemic is about to show them the grinding limits of true confinement and the power of music, love, friendship, and courage.


Praise for The Lakes of Southern Hollow, by Steve Yates:


This hard-hitting gut punch of a novel blew me away. Think Ozark meets Daisy Jones and the Six with an unlikely heroine Tyndall, on the autism spectrum, who saves lives at Saint Martin’s Hospital and elsewhere. The Lakes of Southern Hollow is ultimately an uplifting story about a wild group of forever friends struggling with addiction, fame, sexual longing, mental illness, a pandemic, Trumpers, evangelical zealots, and finally—Lord help them—redemption.

—Margaret McMullan, author of Sources of Light


In Steve Yates’ The Lakes of Southern Hollow, we see characters strive, struggle, and wish. Above all, Yates has written characters we want to keep reading. There’s real electricity here—in the pizazz of the dialogue and in the lilt of the musical prose.The Lakes of Southern Hollow is told with humor and fire.

—Olivia Clare Friedman, author of Here Lies


Author Steve Yates. He is a white man with brown hair cut so it just covers his ears. He has an open toothy smile and wears a black golf shirt under a beige jacket.Steve Yates is the award-winning author of The Legend of the Albino Farm: A Novel (Unbridled Books), Some Kinds of Love: Stories (University of Massachusetts Press / Juniper Prize Winner), and Morkan’s Quarry: A Novel (Moon City Press). His novella, Sandy and Wayne, was chosen by New York Times-bestselling author Lauren Groff as the inaugural winner of the Knickerbocker Prize, published in a letter press edition by Big Fiction and later published as a book by Dock Street Press. He is associate director / marketing director of University Press of Mississippi, and lives in Flowood with his wife, Tammy.


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Screencapture of author Steve Yates talking to Steve Grant on KY3--a news channel--in Springfield, Missouri. The anchorman is wearing a suit and tie with a big number 3 on the wall behind him, while Steve Yates on a split screen is wearing a casual orange golf shirt.
Click screen capture, above, to see and hear the whole interview.

 

Springfield native and author is in town to sign copies of his newest book
Click the screencapture above to hear this interview with Steve Yates on NPR’s ALL THINGS CONSIDERED

https://www.ksmu.org/news/2024-09-24/springfield-native-and-author-is-in-town-to-sign-copies-of-his-newest-book

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1 review for The Lakes of Southern Hollow

  1. kpdavis

    Three teens coming of age on the leading edge of the COVID pandemic. Of course their lives are complicated. I loved Tyndall, she’s on the autism spectrum, and Steve Yates writes her so well.

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