Wine and Cheese Reception with Edward Kelsey Moore

We are excited to announce the return visit of award winning, best-selling author and musician Edward Kelsey Moore on Thursday, June 29th at 6 p.m. Edward will visit the store to discuss his latest novel, The Supremes Sing the Happy Heartache Blues, a follow-up to his New York Times bestseller, The Supremes at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat. This is a free wine and cheese event and reservations are requested. For more information, or to reserve your space, please contact us at 231.347.1180 or send us an email.

When a late life love affair blooms between Mr. Forrest Payne, the owner of the Pink Slipper Gentleman’s Club, and Miss Beatrice Jordan, famous for stationing herself at the edge of the club’s parking lot and yelling warnings of eternal damnation at the departing patrons, their wedding summons a legend to town. Mr. El Walker, the great guitar bluesman, comes home to give a command performance in Plainview, Indiana, a place he’d sworn―and for good reason―he’d never set foot in again.

But El is not the only Plainview native with a hurdle to overcome. A wildly philandering husband struggles at last to prove his faithfulness to the wife he’s always loved. And among those in this tightly knit community who show up every Sunday after church for lunch at Earl’s All-You-Can-Eat, are the lifelong friends, known locally as “The Supremes” ―Clarice, facing down her longing for, chance at and fear of a great career; Barbara Jean, grappling at last with the loss of a mother whose life humiliated both of them, and Odette, reaching toward her husband through an anger of his that she does not understand.

Edward Kelsey Moore’s lively cast of characters, each of whom have surmounted serious trouble and come into love, need not learn how to survive but how, fully, to live. And they do, every one of them, serenaded by the bittersweet and unforgettable blues song El Walker plays, born of his own great loss and love.

Edward Kelsey Moore lives in Chicago, where he has enjoyed a long career as a cellist. His short fiction has appeared in several literary magazines, including "Indiana Review, African American Review, "and "Inkwell." His short story "Grandma and the Elusive Fifth Crucifix" was selected as an audience favorite on National Public Radio's "Stories on Stage "series.