Unwanted Significance with Renée Ozburn

Join us for an evening with Michigan author Renée Ozburn to celebrate her debut title, Unwanted Significance. This book is perfect for fans of literary fiction or for book clubs searching for their next book to read and discuss!

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About the Book:

When race and ethnicity mean nothing to a man and woman in love-but everything to their families-everyone gets hurt.

In 1995, when Tyler Carson and Alana Adler meet, their chemistry is instant. He's a psychology professor. She's a linguist and musician. Both are 38. He is White. She is Black. Neither has made much time for serious relationships, until a train trip changes their trajectory.

But their growing passion, played out in atmospheric settings from Cape Cod to San Francisco and Montana to New York, is no match for the intergenerational forces working to tear them apart. In addition to Tyler's doting, manipulative mother and his long-lost father who reappears with a new identity, deeply buried secrets in Alana's family begin to emerge.

Ultimately, the unwanted significance of race, ethnicity, and a past they had nothing to do with test the limits of their love, creating unexpected futures for both.

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About the Author:

After a long career as a judge, Renée began writing creatively. After winning the Los Angeles Review's Creative Nonfiction Literary Award for her essay "A Redbone's Reality," Renée dove into fiction writing, leading to her debut novel "Unwanted Significance." She splits her time between Michigan and Paris, France.