Book Release and Reading: Kelsey Ronan (Chevy in the Hole) / Tim Lane (Your Silent Face)
Sat, May 14
|Lansing
Join Kelsey Ronan (Chevy in the Hole) and Tim Lane (Your Silent Face) as they discuss, read and sign their phenomenal new books! Both authors hail from Flint, MI, and both novels are set in the city. 3-5PM, free to attend, masks req. indoors. More info below!
Time & Location
May 14, 2022, 3:00 PM
Lansing, 1105 S Washington Ave, Lansing, MI 48910, USA
About The Event
3-5pm, free to attend, all ages. Masks required indoors.
Kelsey Ronan:
Kelsey Ronan grew up in Flint, Michigan. Her work has appeared in Lit Hub, Michigan Quarterly Review, The Kenyon Review and elsewhere. She lives in Detroit and teaches for InsideOut Literary Arts. Chevy in the Hole is her first novel.
“There is a particular kind of melancholy endemic to cities in the industrial Midwest. does a wonderful job of capturing this kind of melancholy, in particular the melancholy of Flint, Mich., where August (Gus), who’s recovering from an opioid addiction, falls in love with Monae, a hard-working activist...It’s Gus who anchors this novel, ...He’s thoughtful in every sense of the word — he’s kind and he thinks too much, and ” Chevy in the Holeas Ronan adeptly dramatizes one of the most dangerous monsters of addiction: self-loathingRonan has a gift for propulsive sentences that make even his deeply interior moment…