<div style="font-family: arial; font-size: 14px;"><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-size: 14px;" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;">Hi all,</span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-size: 14px;" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;"><br fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span></div><div fr-original-style="" style="box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-size: 14px;" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;">The Bay County Library System will be hosting Michigan Notable Author Anne-Marie Oomen tonight (7:00 pm) at the Alice & Jack Wirt Library in Bay City for a book discussion and Q & A! </span></div><div fr-original-style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: border-box;"><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-size: 14px;" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;">Anne-Marie Oomen’s 2022 memoir, As Long As I Know You: The Mom Book, about her difficult but ultimately rewarding relationship with her mother, won a Michigan Notable Book Award. Her readings spring from a range of lively sources including intergenerational challenges (Mother-daughter conflict?), travel adventures (You lost your </span><span fr-original-style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px;" style="font-family: inherit; font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;"><a tabindex="-1" style="color: rgb(56, 88, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-family: inherit; box-sizing: border-box; user-select: auto;" fr-original-style="color: rgb(56, 88, 152); cursor: pointer; text-decoration: none; font-family: inherit;" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer"></a></span><span fr-original-style="font-size: 14px;" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;">passport!), and how she discovered poetry (involving a 1969 Camaro). Working in multiple genres, Oomen explores the nature of relationships, the natural world, and personal transformation.</span></div></div><div fr-original-style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial;" style="margin: 0.5em 0px 0px; white-space: pre-wrap; overflow-wrap: break-word; font-family: "Segoe UI Historic", "Segoe UI", Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; color: rgb(5, 5, 5); font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: 2; text-align: left; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; widows: 2; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); text-decoration-thickness: initial; text-decoration-style: initial; text-decoration-color: initial; box-sizing: border-box;"><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start;" style="font-family: inherit; text-align: start; box-sizing: border-box;"><span fr-original-style="font-size: 14px;" style="font-size: 14px; box-sizing: border-box;">The Michigan Notable Book program is sponsored in part by the Library of Michigan Foundation, Michigan Center for the Book, and Michigan Humanities.</span></div><div dir="auto" fr-original-style="font-family: inherit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