Tucson Festival of Books

The Weight of Truth


How does fiction bear witness to history, injustice and the moral costs of resistance? This panel brings together three authors whose work illuminates the courage it takes to tell the truth (and the consequences of doing so) in worlds shaped by power and silence.


Panelists
Jason Mott

Jason Mott has published four novels; the first, "The Returned," was a New York Times bestseller and was turned into a TV series that ran for two seasons. He has a BFA in Fiction and an MFA in Poetry, both from the University of North Carolina at Wilmington....

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Anna North

Anna North is the author of The New York Times bestseller and Reese Witherspoon Book Club pick "Outlawed." She also authored the America Pacifica and Lambda Literary Award winner "The Life and Death of Sophie Stark....

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Books:
People Like Us
A Novel
Jason Mott
Fiction / Literature
Penguin Group
August 2025
ISBN 9798217047116
288 pages
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Bog Queen
A Novel
Anna North
Fiction / Literature
Bloomsbury USA
October 2025
ISBN 9781635579666
288 pages
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