Author signing: Ben Miller - River Bend Chronicles

When: Thu., April 18, 7 p.m. 2013

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Miller has engulfed the reader in a dysfunctional family searching for what it means to be a family and a city grasping for identity in the wake of strip malls and pop cultural trinkets. From this expansive debut interspersed with Bob Campagna's vintage photographs of urban Iowa in the '70s readers will emerge rooted to the terra firma of our national literature and reminded of the dreams we inherit as our own, long after we've moved away.