Bear County, Michigan with John Counts

Join us in Grand Rapids for an event with Michigan author John Counts! Bear County, Michigan, is perfect for fans of literary fiction and stories set in Michigan.

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About the Book:

Following desperate characters in desperate circumstances in the rural Midwest

In these colorful, darkly comic stories, veteran journalist and crime reporter John Counts takes readers to an often-ignored part of the country: a fictional Great Lakes coastal town in northern Michigan defined by beauty and bleakness. The cast of characters in these connected stories ranges from addicts to backwoods misfits to ruined lumber families, all bound together by their desire to obtain something just out of reach. Big Frank breaks out of a rehab facility trying to outrun grief. The women in the village of Brotherhood grapple with sterility resulting from an environmental calamity. A local politician must convince her mother to leave a nudist colony. And in the final, sweeping story, a splinter group from the local tribe attempts to reclaim its ancestral land by force. The people of Bear County and their predicaments encompass the wildly original and yet totally ordinary truths about American life off the beaten track.

About the Author:

John Counts is an award-winning journalist who has published fiction in the Chicago Reader and Chicago Tribune's Printers Row Journal. He has worked at newspapers throughout the state over the past twenty years, covering everything from crime to the Flint water crisis. He earned his MFA from Columbia College Chicago and is also a former editor of the Great Lakes Review literary journal. He lives in Whitmore Lake with his family and works as the investigations editor at MLive.com.

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