Michelle Huneven, author of SEARCH - a hybrid Boswell event

2559 North Downer Avenue,Milwaukee WI 53211

04 May, 2022

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Michelle Huneven, author of SEARCH - a hybrid Boswell event Readings from Oconomowaukee presents a special in-person event for Michelle Huneven, author of Search. For this event, Huneven will be talking with Daniel Goldin of Boswell and Lisa Baudoin of Books & Company. Register here to be part of the in-person program. Dana Potowski is a restaurant critic and food writer and a longtime member of a progressive Unitarian Universalist congregation in Southern California. Just as she's finishing the book tour for her latest bestseller, Dana is asked to join the church search committee for a new minister. Under pressure to find her next book idea, she agrees, and resolves to secretly pen a memoir, with recipes, about the experience. That memoir, Search, follows the travails of the committee and their candidates - and becomes its own media sensation. Ultimately, the committee faces a stark choice between two very different paths forward for the congregation. Although she may have been ambivalent about joining the committee, Dana finds that she cares deeply about the fate of this institution and she will fight the entire committee, if necessary, to win the day for her side. From Kirkus Reviews: "Huneven shows her range with a folksy, funny fifth novel on the unlikely subject of how bad decisions happen to good committees . . . engaging and thought-provoking. The voting, the vetting, the drama, the discord, the anti-oppression training--it's all here . . . tender, salty, and worthy of note." Michelle Huneven is the author of four novels: Round Rock, Jamesland, Blame, and Off Course. Her books have been New York Times Notable Books and finalists for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize and the National Book Critics Circle Award. She is the recipient of a Whiting Award for Fiction, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a James Beard Award for feature writing with recipes, and received her master's in fine arts from the Iowa Writers' Workshop. She teaches writing at University of California, Los Angeles. Purchase your copy of Search at https://www.boswellbooks.com/book/9780593300053 or from https://www.booksco.com/book/9780593300053 . We recommend purchasing the book in advance. If you'd like to watch the event virtually, we're planning to broadcast it on Zoom Webinar. A link will be sent out on the day of the event. Books & Company will be hosting an afternoon event with Michelle Huneven at 2:00 pm. Link to come. Please note that we're only allowing two people to register on one email so that we can keep registered folks aware of any changes to this event.