Brad Leithauser, noted American novelist, poet, essayist, and teacher, will be at Griffin Bay Bookstore on Thursday evening, March 18, 7:00 pm to discuss his latest novel, The Art Student’s War.  Set in Detroit during the Second World War, the novel gives us a keen and affectionate rendering of an artist as a young woman and a loving historical portrait of a now-vanished Detroit in its heyday.

Brad Leithauser was born in Detroit and graduated from Harvard College and Harvard Law School. He is the author of five novels, a novel in verse, four previous volumes of poetry, a collection of light verse, and a book of essays. Among his many awards and honors are a Guggenheim Fellowship, an Ingram Merrill Grant, and a MacArthur Fellowship. He is currently a professor in the writing seminars at Johns Hopkins University. His work has appeared in The New York Times, The New York Review of Books, Time, and The New Yorker.

Griffin Bay Book Club will meet Friday night, March 26, at 7:00 pm in the cafe to discuss Yoko Ogawa's The Housekeeper and the Professor, a wildly popular novel that has sold more than 2.5 million copies in Japan. This is Ogawa's first novel to be translated into English and it is a gem. It is the story of the beautiful and strange relationship that develops between a brilliant professor of mathematics whose damaged brain leaves him with just 80 minutes of short-term memory and his young housekeeper and her son. This is a calm, unhurried, and poignant story about budding friendship and the creation of family where non existed before. Yoko Ogawa writes with precision and lucidity, with tender regard for the three characters who are brought together by chance to discover and nourish unlikely bonds of affection and family.