Here are three books I plan to read this summer–one that I’ve started and two that I’ll get to. All are connected to Michigan, my ancestral homeland.
The Lake, the River, & the Other Lake, by Steve Amick — Set in the fictional town of Weneskeen on the shores of Lake Michigan, this book is full of strong characters. Anybody who has spent time Up North will recognize a few of them. I started it last week and can’t wait to see how their stories will come together.
Picturing Hemingway’s Michigan, by Michael R. Federspiel — A coffee-table book on Petoskey, Walloon Lake, and their environs, which were the stomping grounds of Ernest Hemingway as a boy and a young man. They provide the setting for some of Hemingway’s finest work, collected in The Nick Adams Stories.
The Hanging Tree, by Bryan Gruley — This is the sequel to Gruley’s excellent debut mystery novel, Starvation Lake.