Chapel Hill Author Kate Betterton Shares Her Book, Where the Lake Becomes the River on UNC-TV’s
North Carolina Bookwatch, Sunday, November 22, at 5 PM

Growing up amidst Mississippi’s racial tensions, Where the Lake Becomes the River protagonist Parrish McCullough is shadowed by secrets and haunted by spirits. She wrestles with “The Truth About Life After Death,” after her father dies and she sees his ghost sitting beside his casket.

Parrish is a gifted artist who desperately hopes to attend college, but there’s no money. She fears her mother will lapse into madness if she goes, and she keeps getting distracted by the wrong kind of man. When Civil Rights workers arrive in Mississippi, Parrish takes a chance that sends her onto the razor’s edge between living and dying, learns of the soul’s survival—and finds an unexpected romance.

In an all-new episode of UNC-TV’s local literary series North Carolina Bookwatch with D.G. Martin, premiering Sunday, November 22, at 5 PM, author Kate Betterton shares her lush, vivid, and wildly entertaining new book, Where the Lake Becomes the River, bringing to life an unforgettable extended Southern family, along with its dreams, its disappointments—and, yes, even its beloved ghosts.

After years of living in the north, Kate Betterton answered the siren song of the South, and now lives with her family in Chapel Hill, NC-- where, it’s claimed with admirable exaggeration, “You can’t throw a tomato without hitting a writer.” Her work has been published in The Sun, The Southerner, and local publications. She is the recipient of a grant from the Barbara Deming Memorial Foundation of the Bronx, NY, was awarded an Emerging Artist Grant by the Durham, NC Arts Council, and won the 2008 Novello Literary Award for Where the Lake Becomes the River. She’s a member of the Chapel Hill Writers’ Group, and the Durham Writers' Meetup Group.

Don’t miss D.G. Martin’s all-new interview with Kate Betterton on North Carolina Bookwatch, Sunday, November 22, at 5 PM, only on UNC-TV!

During the 26-week season of North Carolina Bookwatch, guests will also include:  John Shelton Reed and Dale Volberg Reed (Holy Smoke), Justin Catanoso (My Cousin the Saint), Todd Johnson (The Sweet By and By), Michael Walden (North Carolina in the Connected Age), Barbara Fredrickson (Positivity), Michael Davis (Street Gang), Dan Ariely (Predictably Irrational), Howard Lee (The Courage to Lead), Marianne Gingher (Adventures in Pen Land), Dan Barefoot (Hark the Sound of Tar Heel Voices), John Hart (The Last Child),  Elizabeth Edwards (Resilience), Brett Friedlander (Chasing Moonlight),  Michael Malone (The Four Corners of the Sky), John Kessel (The Baum Plan for Financial Independence and Other Stories), Reynolds Price (Ardent Spirits), Alexandra Sokoloff (The Unseen), Barry Popkin (The World is Fat), and Erica Eisdorfer (The Wet Nurse’s Tale).

For additional information about series guests and airdates, plus links to Bookwatch on Facebook, please visit: www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch.

Funding for North Carolina Bookwatch is provided by UNC-TV members and by Quail Ridge Books and Music, Raleigh’s independent, full service bookstore, bringing readers and writers together since 1984.

North Carolina Bookwatch is part of UNC-TV’s ongoing commitment to produce programs for and about North Carolina. UNC-TV is the statewide 11-station broadcast network of the University of North Carolina. For more information, please visit www.unctv.org/ncbookwatch.

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