Marlowe Thibodeaux

Marlowe Thibodeaux writes Southern Gothic fiction — the kind where the house remembers more than the people do, and every family keeps one door closed. Her novels are set in and around Savannah, Georgia, where salt air, live oaks, and two hundred years of polite silence make an excellent place to keep a secret. She grew up between south Louisiana and the Georgia coast, in houses older than anyone could agree on, where the stairs announced every visitor and the photographs on the wall were labeled on the back in a hand she was told not to read. She read them. She has been writing down what she found ever since — the gaps, the omissions, the names that got said in the kitchen and never at the table. The Savannah Trilogy — The Things Savannah Forgot, The Things Savannah Kept, and The Things Savannah Told, with the prequel A Sunday in Autumn — follows three generations of Mercer women, a house that holds what they cannot, and a memory that will not stay buried. Each book stands alone. Together they ask the same question from three different angles: what do you owe the people who came before you, and what happens when you finally remember? She lives on the Georgia coast with a desk facing a window, a house that settles at night, and a stack of other people's letters she has promised not to read. (She is reading them.)