Michele M. Feeney: Like Home

Join award-winning writer and lawyer, Michele M. Feeney, as she discusses and signs her latest novel, Like Home.
About this Event

Join award-winning writer and lawyer, Michele M. Feeney, as she discusses and signs her latest novel, Like Home.

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 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 Feeney is an award-winning writer and lawyer, teacher, wife, and mother of five children. She has been a voracious reader all her life and pursued her passion for creative writing for twenty years before she earned an MFA from Bennington College in 2022 in the genres of fiction and nonfiction. Her first novel, Like Family, dealing with the influenza epidemic of 1918, was released in 2024. Like Home follows the same characters in their ongoing struggles during the Great Depression. She lives in Arizona and Michigan, where she owns part of a Christmas tree farm her ancestors homesteaded in 1850 and tends the farmhouse they built as new immigrants.