News & Announcements
Women's National Book Association
Monday, March 14 at 6:30pm at Northwest School of the Arts in Charlotte
Jim will be the guest of Nancy Gutierrez, Dean of the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at UNC Charlotte.
Barnes and Noble Book Signing
Thursday, March 24 at 5pm
Jim will be signing books at the Barnes and Noble bookstore on UNC Charlotte's campus (in the new student union building). Please stop by for a visit and to have your book signed.
College Bookshop Signing
Wednesday, July 20 from 1pm-3pm
The author will be signing books at Cottage Bookshop in Glen Arbor, Michigan. Please stop by for a visit and to have your book signed.
Leelanau Books
Sunday, July 24 from 1pm-3pm
The author will be signing books at Leelanau Books in Leland Michigan. Please stop by for a visit and have your book signed.
Horizon Books
Thursday, July 28 from 3pm-5pm
Stop by and have your book signed at Horizon Books in Traverse City Michigan.
In the Shadow of the Bear chronicles the author's return, after a forty-year absence, to the site of his childhood summer vacations at Little Glen Lake in northwestern Lower Michigan's Leelanau peninsula.
The ancient Ojibwa legend that gave a name to the area's most striking geographical feature, the Sleeping Bear Sand Dunes, offers a way of understanding his mother's powerful but sometimes restless force of love and ambition in the family, as well as his father's quieter, often self-sacrificing love. Chapters devoted to the return to Leelanau, to each of his parents, and to his father's family culminate in the narrative of his daughter's 2005 Leelanau wedding.
Jim McGavran tells his story of self- discovery in prose that is alternately frank and lyrical as he recaptures his bewildered yet enchanted boyhood self, filtered through his consciousness of longing and loss, lending the writing a particular poignancy.