Lansing native and MSU graduate Thom Vernon has worked in film, television and theatre since 1989, including appearances on Seinfeld, General Hospital and The Fugitive. Now he is returning home to promote the release of his first novel, The Drifts!

In The Drifts you encounter an unhappily expectant mom, a man in love with a cow, a woman who looks like a refrigerator and a transsexual: it's just another small town in the middle of a blizzard. As the blizzard buries the ground, it uncovers the resentments, hopes and aches of a small town in northeastern Arkansas, where, like in any Southern small town, there are unwanted pregnancies to agonize over, surgeries to be paid for and love to be made. Four very different voices converge as the blizzard gathers force, their stories violently mapping the snow the ways that memory, gender, and history carve themselves upon our bodies. The Drifts is dexterously told, a cacophony of four affecting voices melding into one exquisite chord.