Author Talk/Booksinging with Heather McElhatton (28th St.)

09/07/2010 7:00 pm

Heather McElhatton’s addictive new choose-your-own-ending novel for adults, you can find out exactly what you’d do. Would you buy a mansion? Save an endangered species? Have a debauched weekend on Sex Island?

A follow-up to her bestselling debut, PRETTY LITTLE MISTAKES, MILLION LITTLE MISTAKES lets you indulge all your strange dreams and dark desires, taking you from the lap of luxury to the pits of despair depending on which road you travel. One beginning leads to over 50 different endings, which will surprise, shock, and delight readers as they hunt for happiness.

Woven into this wildly funny and unpredictable book is the deeper question, can money buy happiness? Twenty-two million dollars can buy a lot, but can it buy a happy ending? Will your fortune be lost in a Ponzi scheme? Will your luxury cruise be hijacked by South Seas pirates? Will your wildest fantasy bring you to new heights of pleasure or just to an STD clinic? Is your destiny to become a philanthropist, a pharmaceutical tycoon, a happy home maker or burlesque stripper?

About the Author: Heather McElhatton (MACKLE-hatton) is a writer and independent producer for Public Radio International. Her commentaries and stories have been heard nationally on This American Life, Marketplace, Weekend America, Sound Money and The Savvy Traveler. She also produced the radio literary series Talking Volumes. Besides ongoing reporting and radio commentary, Heather appeared on Ira Glass’s very first episode of the television version of This American Life. Her debut novel was a choose-your-own-ending book for adults called Pretty Little Mistakes.

Location: 
Street:
2660 28th St.
City:
Grand Rapids
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Province:
Michigan
Postal Code:
49512
Country:
United States