A novel released in October includes some shape-note singing! The author mentions fasola.org on her website and her publisher is offering the book to shape-note singers at a discounted price.

 
What becomes of a woman who strives to live by her own vital principle, to find and embrace her own 'electrical' impulse?

"Finally! A book that lets readers feel what it's like to experience shape-note singing for the first time in all its loud, disorienting, surprising joyful glory! This story will sweep you up with the momentum and complexity of a shape-note fugue."
—Jenny Sterne Jensen,
Utah Sacred Harp Singers

Early reviews:

"A novel of music that reads at the pace of a thriller."

"Bawdy, geographically vast, heroic."

   

Young Chjara VallĂ©, full of irrepressible music and sensuality, is exiled from Corsica — sold as a servant to an opium addict in Paris. Music paves the way for her to flee with Henry, her love, to New England. There the new freedoms and Puritan vigor vie for ascendancy. What will the Americans make of this glass harmonica-playing, shape-note singing exotic who lives to make a virtue of pleasure?

 

Order from BewareTheTimidLife.com or your local independent bookstore. You can also get it at Amazon if you prefer.