Note: This event is taking place on Thursday, May 5 at 7pm.
You have to admit you are just a little bit curious to meet the man that Writer’s Digest recently named as the number two writer — dead or alive — that they’d love to have drinks with, who landed just behind Ernest Hemingway and ahead of Hunter S. Thompson. And while these other esteemed authors have long passed, this number two choice, Wade Rouse, a Michigan humorist, will be in Grand Rapids for special reading of his latest release.
But unlike his previous memoir works, like Confessions of a Prep School Mommy Handler: A Memoir (2007), At Least in the City Someone Would Hear Me Scream (2009), and It’s All Relative: 2 Families, 3 Dogs, 34 Holidays, and 50 Boxes of Wine (2011), and his beloved memoir, America’s Boy (2007), Rouse has taken a huge shift with the releases of his first novel — and for a host of reasons — but the biggest is right there on the cover.
For his debut novel, The Charm Bracelet, Rouse has taken the pen name of his grandmother, Viola Shipman. Part of this shift is Rouse devotion to his family’s past, from where he found such inspiration to create his first novel.
The novel follows the legacy of a family heirloom charm bracelet through the lives of three women. How the story unfolds is a spoiler I won’t reveal here, but let’s just say that this novel is a call to slow down and enjoy the things around us while we are able to share them across generational lines.
The Grand Rapids Public Library event is the Michigan kick off of Rouse’s book launch tour, as well as the kick-off event for the library’s GR Reads 2016 program.
Admission: Free
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