Friday, February 6th: Fiction. UM MFA alum Sharma Shields reads from her debut novel The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac. 7 pm.

At age 10, Eli Roebuck watched in disbelief as his mother packed her bags and ran off with her lover – a giant Sasquatch named Mr. Krantz. So begins Eli’s lifelong obsession with Northwestern hominids, and the dark, absurd, and heartfelt novel, The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac from award-winning writer Sharma Shields.

“The Sasquatch Hunter's Almanac is deeply strange and strangely moving.  Like Kafka's The Metamorphosis, it demands and rewards surrender.” —Richard Russo, winner of the Pulitzer Prize