Michelle Hoover’s The Quickening is an epic narrative of the bitter feud between two Iowa farming families—a feud lasting forty years, through two World Wars and the Great Depression. She knows what she's writing about--Hoover based her novel on her own grandmother’s diary and family oral histories. Hoover will be at Magers & Quinn Booksellers … Continue reading Sneak Preview

Years ago, Michelle Hoover discovered fifteen poorly-typed pages. Written during the last year of her great-grandmother’s life, they preserved the story of seventy years of hardship and loss on her family’s Iowa farm. The account eventually formed the basis of Hoover's first novel, The Quickening. "I consider the novel a restoration--a successful pursuit of what … Continue reading Iowa Stories

Vendela Vida, author of the 2007 New York Times Notable Book Let the Northern Lights Erase Your Name comes to Magers & Quinn Booksellers to read from her new novel The Lovers, Tuesday, July 27, 7:30pm, at Magers & Quinn Booksellers.Yvonne is a widow, her twin children grown. Hoping to immerse herself in memories of … Continue reading Vendela Vida reads from The Lovers