Former professor works on his second novel
Posted By: Features Editor
January 28, 2021
Ben Overby
boverby@murraystate.edu
Former Murray State English professor and current fiction editor of “Hyphen Magazine” James Han Mattson’s second novel “Reprieve” will be released on Oct. 5, 2021.
Mattson’s first novel, “The Lost Prayers of Ricky Graves” was released in 2017. It told the story of a young man struggling with his sexual orientation in a small town, who kills a classmate bullying him and then himself. The novel uses multiple points of view as well as emails and online chat room exchanges to explore the event and its aftermath.