Like Home with Michele Feeney
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Come learn about life in 1918 rural Michigan through the lens of the Reid family. Author Michele Feeney will be joining us in Ann Arbor to chat about her latest book, Like Home, which is perfect for Michiganders who love historical fiction.
Like Home is the second book in the Like Family series, however, we will have both books available, so even if you haven’t read book 1 yet, we encourage you to come out and connect with fellow readers!
We love seeing who is planning to join us! Your RSVP helps us prepare to host you. You can RSVP here: https://events.humanitix.com/michele-feeney-sba2
About the Book:
Mollie Crowley Reid, a schoolteacher, lives in rural Michigan with her husband, Tom, a store owner and farmer, and their adopted daughter, Cecilia, an art student. In the depths of the Great Depression, Mollie receives unexpected news that impacts the future of her family and makes the threats to their economic well-being even more daunting.
Facing these new challenges, Mollie fights to maintain her beloved career, her home, her health, and her family, all the while reaching out to help those around her as best she can. Cecilia, orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, seeks a connection with her biological family and her identity as a student and artist. Tom, with sometimes crushing responsibility, fights to maintain his livelihood and mental health, make sense of turbulent politics, and extend compassion and assistance in his community.
Through trials of illness, financial hardship, unsettling times, and family displacement, they discover home is not a place but rather the people who choose to love and support each other through life’s unexpected turns. And family, they learn, is built on shared struggles and love.
About the Author:
Michele M. Feeney is an award-winning writer, lawyer, teacher, wife, and mother of five. She divides her time between Arizona and Michigan, where her family still owns part of a Christmas tree farm homesteaded by her ancestors in 1850. After spending twenty years raising children, working, and writing whenever she could, Michele earned her MFA in fiction and nonfiction from Bennington College in 2022.
Her creative work is rooted in the untold histories of rural families, women’s resilience, and the everyday courage required to endure hardship. Her debut novel, Like Family (2024), was inspired by a story passed down from her grandmother and imagines how one small Michigan community weathered the influenza epidemic of 1918. With deep personal connections to Michigan’s landscape and history, Michele brings a compassionate, historically rich lens to her fiction. Like Home, the second novel in the Like Family Series, follows the Crowley-Reid family into the Great Depression, exploring motherhood, illness, mental health, identity, and the struggle to keep a home, and a sense of belonging, alive.
She is currently at work on additional fiction, including a third novel, and short stories, and a memoir about her friendship with a young man incarcerated in the Arizona Department of Corrections.
Michele has attended the Bear River Writing Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, and has served as Assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine since 2017. She earned her MFA from Bennington College in 2022.
Like Home is the second book in the Like Family series, however, we will have both books available, so even if you haven’t read book 1 yet, we encourage you to come out and connect with fellow readers!
We love seeing who is planning to join us! Your RSVP helps us prepare to host you. You can RSVP here: https://events.humanitix.com/michele-feeney-sba2
About the Book:
Mollie Crowley Reid, a schoolteacher, lives in rural Michigan with her husband, Tom, a store owner and farmer, and their adopted daughter, Cecilia, an art student. In the depths of the Great Depression, Mollie receives unexpected news that impacts the future of her family and makes the threats to their economic well-being even more daunting.
Facing these new challenges, Mollie fights to maintain her beloved career, her home, her health, and her family, all the while reaching out to help those around her as best she can. Cecilia, orphaned during the influenza epidemic of 1918, seeks a connection with her biological family and her identity as a student and artist. Tom, with sometimes crushing responsibility, fights to maintain his livelihood and mental health, make sense of turbulent politics, and extend compassion and assistance in his community.
Through trials of illness, financial hardship, unsettling times, and family displacement, they discover home is not a place but rather the people who choose to love and support each other through life’s unexpected turns. And family, they learn, is built on shared struggles and love.
About the Author:
Michele M. Feeney is an award-winning writer, lawyer, teacher, wife, and mother of five. She divides her time between Arizona and Michigan, where her family still owns part of a Christmas tree farm homesteaded by her ancestors in 1850. After spending twenty years raising children, working, and writing whenever she could, Michele earned her MFA in fiction and nonfiction from Bennington College in 2022.
Her creative work is rooted in the untold histories of rural families, women’s resilience, and the everyday courage required to endure hardship. Her debut novel, Like Family (2024), was inspired by a story passed down from her grandmother and imagines how one small Michigan community weathered the influenza epidemic of 1918. With deep personal connections to Michigan’s landscape and history, Michele brings a compassionate, historically rich lens to her fiction. Like Home, the second novel in the Like Family Series, follows the Crowley-Reid family into the Great Depression, exploring motherhood, illness, mental health, identity, and the struggle to keep a home, and a sense of belonging, alive.
She is currently at work on additional fiction, including a third novel, and short stories, and a memoir about her friendship with a young man incarcerated in the Arizona Department of Corrections.
Michele has attended the Bear River Writing Conference, Bread Loaf Writers’ Conferences, and has served as Assistant Editor for Narrative Magazine since 2017. She earned her MFA from Bennington College in 2022.
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Where is it happening?
Schuler Books (Ann Arbor), 2513 Jackson Ave.,Ann Arbor, Michigan, United States
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