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Thursday, April 5, 2012 at 7:00 pm
City Opera House,  Traverse City

Alan Cheuse, National Public Radio’s “Voice of Books”with special guest Geraldine Brooks, Pulitizer Prize-winning author of March.

National Public Radio’s acclaimed “Voice of Books” Alan Cheuse is a master of words, both his own and others. As a book critic, Alan appears regularly on NPR’s “All Things Considered” and has served as a fiction judge for the National Book Award. As an author, Alan has published four novels, three collections of short fiction and the memoir Fall Out of Heaven. His short fiction has appeared in publications including The New Yorker, Ploughshares and The Antioch Review. Alan’s latest novel, Song of Slaves in the Desert, traces the thread of slavery from 1500s Timbuktu up to the Civil War, exploring one man’s struggle with the legacy of slavery and the loyalty of family.

Alan will be joined on stage by friend and fellow author Geraldine Brooks for an entertaining discussion of their lives and works. Brooks, an Australian journalist and author, has written several international best-sellers including Nine Parts of Desire, Year of Wonders and People of the Book. She won the 2006 Pulitzer Prize for March, a riveting parallel novel to Louisa May Alcott’s Little Women told from the point of view of the March family’s absent father. Two smart literary novelists, one captivating discussion about life and letters.

Event Details
Thursday, April 5, 2012 • 7:00 pm
City Opera House, downtown Traverse City
$20 advance, $25 at the door; $10 educators; $5 students
The evening includes a pre-event concert and reception with dessert (compliments of Morsels), an audience Q and A, a post-event book signing and a cash bar reception.