LOCAL NEWS | Events — The Moore County Library picked One Good Mama Bone as their next Brown Bag Book Club pick. The book is a novel by South Carolina writer Bren McClain who likes to combine her love of farm animals and love of writing into works of fiction.

The novel revolves around the protagonist’s, Sarah Creamer, quest to find her “mama bone” after being forced to raise the boy who is the product of her husband’s affair. She receives lessons from an odd source … a cow named Mama Red. To read a complete novel summary, click here.

McClain grew up on a 72-acre beef cattle and grain farm in Anderson, South Carolina. The Pirate’s Alley Faulkner Award named an excerpt from One Good Mama Bone as a finalist for a Novel-in-Progress in 2012. It also won the 2017 Willie Morris Award for Southern Fiction. She’s currently on her next novel, Took, which features another farm animal, chicken. It won the 2016 William Faulkner-William Wisdom prize for Novel-in-Progress.

The Brown Bag Book Club will meet on Friday, November 22 at 1 p.m. at the Moore County Public Library located at 17 Majors Boulevard. Participants should bring their own brown bag lunch. If you would like to read the novel and join in the discussion, you can purchase it on Amazon and other booksellers or download it immediately on Hoopla.

For more information, visit the event’s Facebook page. •

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