7 Book Report Assignment Although it’s not due until March 15, this would be a very easy assignment to engage over the upcoming spring break, or sooner. Find and read a novel or narrative history BOOK set in Michigan, ideally one authored by a Michigan resident. Write a roughly two-page book report whose general theme is what it shows about Michigan. Reports will be graded pass/fail. You will need to think about historical and regional themes and how the state’s culture, economics, politics, regions etc. are represented. What makes your book representative of or relevant to the state and its people? How could it not be set anywhere else? This list is only a starting point. Please feel free to ask Prof Watts about other sources or possibilities, especially local ones from your communities. All the sources listed here are for sale on Amazon.com. Most of the mysteries are trade books available in any decent bookshop, even used. Both Curious and Archives on Grand River have separate Michigan sections. Both local Schulers have Michigan sections, new and used, as well. Many are available as downloads (though there’s a load of self-published downloadable crap as well). You can also check them out from my office. This same list will apply to the sources available for paper #3, if you want to do a book for that. You may not use the same source for both assignments. “Serious Writers” (make sure of Michigan settings) Jeffrey Eugenides Bonnie Jo Campbell (not American Salvage) Jim Harrison Lolita Hernandez Terri McMillan Laura Kauffman Susan Messer Michael Zadoorian Laura Kasciske Peter Devries RA. Riekke Philip Caputo Tom McGuane Gloria Naylor Richard Ford Joseph Schreiber Harriet Arnow Nettie Jones Charles Baxter Jack Driscoll Angela Flourney Short Fiction Travis Mulhauser Michael Delp Jeff Kass Jim Daniels Dorene O’Brien Adam Schuitema RM Kinder Ander Monson Popular/Genre Writers Mysteries Many of these feature continuing characters in a series. Just pick one. If you pick a national-level writer like Leonard, be sure to find one of his Michigan-based books. Elmore Leonard Bryan Gruley Loren Estleman Joseph Heywood Steve Hamilton Lillian Jackson Braun Nevada Barr (some) Elizabeth Buzzelli Douglas Allyn William Coughlin Lev Raphael (mysteries) Barbara D’Amato Nicholas Delbanco Donald Goines Paula Gosling Julia Grice James Hynes Jon A. Jackson Craig Jones Rob Kantner Thomas Kakonis Jake Toombs Robert Traver Ronald Roat William Kienzle Nancy Barr Aaron Stander Harry Doolen Robert C. Wilson (horror) John Smolens Chick Lit/Romance Steve Emrick Mildred Lawrence Jill Culby (Jeanne Grant) Maris Soule Andrea Edwards Pat Warren Nancy Gideon Teresa Roman Donna Winters Ellen Airgood Hip-hop Fiction (?) Treasure Hernandez Ashley Antoinette Historical Fiction Karl Iagnemma DE Johnson Iola Fuller Young Adult If you choose something like a Michigan Chiller or Adventure Club book, be sure to add a section on how and why this would be a good book to include in high school or middle school curricula. Michigan History Detroit: An American Autopsy Detroit City is the Place to Be The Toledo War The Bath Massacre Other Side of the River Any of the many books on the decline and revival of Detroit, or any aspwct of the stare’s history (Motown, for example)
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