Melissa DelbridgeRane Arroyo
Memoir

Melissa Delbridge won the GLCA New Writers Award for Family Bible, her critically acclaimed memoir of growing up along the banks of the Black Warrior River in Tuscaloosa, Alabama. In a starred review, Booklist calls the memoir “as much a cultural history of the South as a history of [Delbridge’s] own life” and claims, “Fans of Carson McCullers won't want to miss this one--witty, tragic, and relentlessly wise.” Delbridge lives with her family in Orange County, North Carolina, and works as an archivist in the Rare Book, Manuscript, and Special Collections Library at Duke University.