Upcoming #Author Booksignings around Michigan #MichLit #MotownWriters

July 2017

JUL

15

SAT

Pewabic Pottery: A History Handcrafted book-signing event 

Detroit

Sat, Jul 15, 2017

Pewabic Pottery, 10125 E Jefferson Ave, Detroit, Michigan

Free and open to the public, light refreshments will also be served

JUL

15

SAT

Author Reading & Talk: Julie Buntin, MARLENA 

Traverse City

Sat, Jul 15, 2017

243 E. Front Street, Traverse City, MI 49684

Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat’s new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter, until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat, inexperienced and desperate for connection, is quickly lured into Marlena’s orbit by little more than an arched eyebrow and a shake of white-blond hair. As the two girls turn the untamed landscape of their desolate small town into a kind of playground, Cat catalogues a litany of firsts―first drink, first cigarette, first kiss―while Marlena’s habits harden and calcify. Within the year, Marlena is dead, drowned in six inches o…

JUL

18

TUE

Julie Buntin discusses Marlena 

Gaylord

Tue, Jul 18, 2017

127 W Main St, Gaylord, MI 49735, United States

Reading and Q&A with Julie Buntin, author of Marlena

Tuesday, July 18th at 6:30pm.

We were wowed by debut novelist Julie Buntin's book Marlena.  Julie captures the setting of wintery northern Michigan and the tenuous friendship of teenage girls perfectly.  If you are a fan of Nickolas Butler (and really, who out there in Saturn-land isn't?) and Travis Mulhauser, you'll want to read this book and welcome Julie to the store.  Get your tickets soon.

JUL

19

WED

Julie Buntin: Marlena 

Ann Arbor

Wed, Jul 19, 2017

Literati Bookstore, 124 E. Washington, Ann Arbor, MI 48104

Literati is delighted to welcome Julie Buntin in support of her debut novel, Marlena, a staff favorite.

Marlena is the story of two girls and the wild year that will cost one her life, and define the other’s for decades.

Everything about fifteen-year-old Cat’s new town in rural Michigan is lonely and off-kilter until she meets her neighbor, the manic, beautiful, pill-popping Marlena. Cat is quickly drawn into Marlena’s orbit and as she catalogues a litany of firsts—first drink, first cigarette, first kiss, first pill—Marlena’s habits harden and calcify. Within the year, Marlena is dead,…

JUL

20

THU

Kath Usitalo Author visit: Book Signing 

Engadine

Thu, Jul 20, 2017

W13920 Melville St,, Engadine, MI 49827

Kath Usitalo author of "100 things to do in the Upper Peninsula Before you die" will visit Engadine Library.