Local author Molleen Zwiker to host reading and signing

Local author Molleen Zwiker will host a book signing and reading for her new release, UNRELIABLE (Scribe Publishing Company), on Saturday, March 9 at the Brighton, MI Barnes and Noble.

UNRELIABLE is a suspense novel begun as an experiment in the unreliable narrator. Decades ago, Edwina made an impulsive decision for which she has successfully avoided the consequences.  Until now.  A seemingly innocuous trip down memory lane with her daughter has thrown her into a life-altering quandary.  Her next decision cannot be made on impulse, but none of the options can lead to any place she wants to be.

About the author:

Molleen Zwiker was born in Panama and raised in Michigan. In the first grade, she wrote (and illustrated) her first short story on a length of coarse brown paper towel purloined from a roll in the girls’ restroom. Her grandmother saved that story, and Zwiker still has it, filed with almost everything she’s ever written.  Zwiker earned an MFA in Creative Writing, Playwriting, from Western Michigan University and has taught writing at a number of colleges and universities. Currently, she is 40 pages into a new novel tentatively titled The Art of Murder.

Other publications include: The Year Seven (1993, Naiad Press); Gardenias Where There Are None (1994, Naiad Press); How to Read Keys: A Contemporary Divination (as Rae Edna, 2004, Iota Press); Who Cut the Cheese: A Parable of Personal Responsibility (2005, Iota Press); and numerous short stories and poems.

Zwiker was a finalist in Dramarama, a national playwriting competition, in 2002 with her  one act play, “Fitting Company,” which also received a staged reading at On Stage Atlanta.   She also won the first Sojourner short fiction competition with “Right Hand to the Right Wall.”

Excerpt from UNRELIABLE:

Then I said, “Okay, but what do I do with the body?”

That old family joke.  Said hundreds of times by one or another of us.  Just a flippant, smart-assed remark.  A quick comeback. Clever.  Witty.  Off-handed.  Predictable and therefore comfortable.  Comforting.  The signal of the end of a rant. “God, I could’ve just killed her.”

Or him, as the case may be.

Or him.

Then the comeback, perfectly timed.   Two beats, and the other would say, “But what would you do with the body?”

Only this time, no one laughed.