The Northeast Corner with Colby Halloran

Join us for a special event with local Ann Arbor author, Colby Halloran! We will be partnering with the A2 Books Social Club to discuss and celebrate Colby’s book, The Northeast Corner.

This event will be a book club-style event featuring Colby as a special guest. Attendees will gather to discuss the book, and Colby will participate as if she is “just” another participant - albeit one with a lot more information on the book’s background! 

How often do you get the opportunity to discuss the book you've read with the person who wrote it? We think that this is a unique approach to meeting an author that will hopefully lead to a deeper discussion of the book.

Please note that all readers are welcome. You do not have to be a member of the A2 Books Social Club to attend this event. Reading the book ahead of time is encouraged, but not required.

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About the Book:

The setting is Ann Arbor, Michigan in the late 1950s and 1960s in the family’s gracious home, an environment of apparent stability until the narrator overhears her beloved father talking to a strange woman on the phone. And so begins the rest of her life: her father barely survives a massive heart attack, her dog dies and the family’s ancestral home must be sold. In their new house, across town, the grand piano only fits in the flooded basement. Her father, unable to drive, work, climb stairs, now spends his days watching baseball in his first floor bedroom while the narrator and her mother go off to their jobs.

The Northeast Corner depicts one family encountering its share of challenges. How the narrator becomes a young woman will surprise you.

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About the Author:

Colby was born and raised in Ann Arbor and graduated from UM. Her passion for theatre took her to graduate acting school at Wayne State University’s Hilberry Theatre, followed by further training at The Circle-in-the-Square Professional Workshop in New York City where she studied with Nikos Psacharopoulos, subsequently performing at his Williamstown Theatre Festival for several years.

She next partnered with Charles Clubb at his Off-Off-Broadway The Theatre Exchange, a 50-seat loft theatre in Tribeca. After the death of Mr. Clubb in a tragic accident, Colby closed The Theatre Exchange in 1981 and began writing. Her as-yet unpublished memoir, Bicycle Boy, A Death in the Neighborhood is a portrait of Mr. Clubb and Tribeca in the 1970s.

While Colby was based in New York City for 30 years, working as a secretary, she took sabbaticals to write in the UK and Ireland where she developed lifelong friendships with an elderly farmer in Shropshire and with a country doctor in North Wales. Both gentlemen are the subjects of her current book projects Ffos-y-Rhiew and Locum Tenens.

Since returning to Ann Arbor in 2006, unable to forsake theatre entirely, she wrote two plays. Her one-act play Somewhere Between Lost and Found was performed in Ypsilanti and her full-length play Bird of Passage premiered at The Bagaduce Theatre in Maine in 2019.

About her writing, Colby says, “Writing takes me to places I can’t get to anymore and lets me be with people and animals I’ve loved and lost.”

The Northeast Corner, published by Fifth Avenue Press, was released in October, 2024.

Colby lives with her husband in Ann Arbor.