Michigan Notable Book Author Event: John Counts
Schedule
Fri, 17 Apr, 2026 at 06:00 pm
UTC-04:00Location
185 E 4th St, Clare, MI, United States, Michigan 48617 | Clare, MI
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FREE AUTHOR EVENTOur library has been selected to be a host for a Michigan Notable Book Author Tour! We will be hosting John Counts, the author of "Bear County: Michigan Stories", on April 17 at 6pm!
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Information about "Bear County: Michigan Stories"
Following desperate characters in desperate circumstances in the rural Michigan.
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.
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