On January 24, fiction writer, music teacher, and Innis alumna (BA ’90) Katie Welch presents her newly published novel, Mad Honey, in Innis Town Hall. Fellow writer and Innis alumna Charlotte Gill (HBA ’96) (pictured right) joins Katie in discussion.

Katie Welch will sign copies of her book following the event. Mad Honey will be available for purchase on site courtesy of Another Story Bookshop.

When Beck Wise vanished his girlfriend, Melissa Makepeace, poured herself into caring for the family farm, silently absorbing yet another man disappearing from her life. But when Beck reappears three months later, thin, pale, with no idea what day it is and filled with memories of being bees, a series of layered mysteries begins to unravel. What had happened to Beck? Where did her father go? How can she keep the farm together? With gorgeous descriptions, deft characterizations, and a page-turning plot, Mad Honey immerses the reader in a search for truth bounded by the everyday magic of beekeeping, of family and of finding peace, all while asking how much we really understand the natural world.