Library to host a Michigan Notable Author on May 28

Matt Bell, who is part of the Library of Michigan’s 2014 Michigan Notable Authors Tour, will be present at the Belleville Area District Library program room at 7 p.m., Wednesday, May 28.
He will be at the Plymouth District Library at 7 p.m., Thursday, May 29.
Bell is the author of “In the House upon the Dirt between the Lake and the Woods.” Copies of the book will be available for purchase at the event.
Every year, the Michigan Notable Books program chooses 20 outstanding fiction and nonfiction books written about Michigan or by a Michigan author and published the previous calendar year.
In his debut novel, Bell tells the story of a newly-wed couple who escapes the rat race for a distant and almost-uninhabited lakeshore. They plan to live there simply, to fish the lake and trap the nearby woods, and build a house upon the dirt between where they can raise a family. This novel is an exploration of parenthood and marriage — and of what happens when a marriage’s success is measured solely by the children it produces, or else the sorrow that marks their absence.
Bell will present an evening of storytelling and book signing, along with a question-and-answer time.
For more information, call Hilary Savage, Adult Services Librarian, at 699-3291, or drop by the library at 167 Fourth Street in downtown Belleville.