Solstice Summer Reading Series: Anne-Marie Oomen

As the 1960s dawned in small-town Michigan, Anne-Marie Oomen was a naive farm girl whose mother was determined to keep her out of trouble— by keeping her in 4-H. In Love, Sex, and 4-H (Wayne State University Press), Oomen sets the wholesomeness of her domestic lessons in 4-H club from 1959 to 1969 against the political and sexual revolution of the time. Between sewing her first dish towel and finishing the yellow dress she wears to senior prom, Oomen brings readers along as she falls in and out of love, wins her first prize, learns to kiss, survives her first heartbreak, and makes almost all of her clothes. Anne-Marie Oomen will read as part of the Solstice MFA in Creative Writing Program Summer Reading Series, Saturday, July 11 at 7:30 p.m. in the Founder’s Room of Pine Manor College, 400 Heath Street, Chestnut Hill.