Meet Michigan author Laura Kasischke at the first Girls' Night Out of the new year! The widely acclaimed novelist and poet whose "writing... shows us an alternate world and lulls us into living in it" (New York Times Book Review) offers a prescient and chilling depiction of lives turned upside down by the threat of a global plague in her new and compelling novel, In a Perfect World. As the "Phoenix flu" spreads far beyond its origins in the American southwest, killing millions, one family, already struggling with an imperfect, fractious home life, must set aside petty differences in order to unite in the face of the ultimate test: to survive. Don't miss this night of great women's fiction, complete with refreshments and a grab bag book giveaway!