Michael Malone Shares His Book, The Four Corners of the Sky
On UNC-TV’s North Carolina Bookwatch, Sunday, October 11, at 5 PM

In Michael Malone’s new book, The Four Corners of the Sky, we meet seven-year-old Annie, who, after years of accompanying her con artist father on his exploits, is left on the family's North Carolina farm.  Years later, everything changes for Annie, now a top Navy jet pilot, when her father calls to say he is dying, and needs her to fly to St. Louis to bring him the airplane he gave her the day he left. If she does, he will give her the one thing she always wanted—the name of the mother she's never known.

From The Four Corners of the Sky, Michael Malone brings these rich characters to life as only he can, evoking the unspoken motivations that drive people to define who they are and break out of those bonds when the call of love comes.

In an all-new episode of UNC-TV’s local literary series North Carolina Bookwatch with D.G. Martin, premiering Sunday, October 11, at 5 PM, Malone shares his novel of love, sacrifice, and the inexplicable bonds that hold families together.

Michael Malone is a novelist as well as the author of short stories, works of nonfiction, several plays, and daytime television drama. He was born in the Piedmont region of North Carolina and his distinctive Southern voice permeates his books, which he describes as "centered in the comedy of the shared communion among very diverse groups of people who are bound together by place and the past."  Michael's writing has been compared to Miguel De Cervantes, Charles Dickens and Henry Fielding. He is the recipient of The O. Henry Award for "Fast Love," the Edgar for "Red Clay" and an Emmy as head writer of ABC-TV's One Life to Live. Michael lives in Hillsborough, NC, with his wife, Maureen, whom he met while they were working toward their doctoral degrees at Harvard University.

Don’t miss DG Martin’s all-new interview with Michael Malone on North Carolina Bookwatch, Sunday, October 11, 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), and Brett Friedlander (Chasing Moonlight).

For additional information about series guests and airdates, plus links to the 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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