A2 Community BookFest

Date(s): Sunday, November 9, 2025
Time: 10:00am-5:00pm
Venue: Downtown Branch of AADL
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Join AADL for a day celebrating books at the A2 Community Bookfest! Formerly the Kerrytown Bookfest, the A2 Community Bookfest is thrilled to return to downtown Ann Arbor for 2025

The Community Bookfest Headliner is K-Ming Chang.

K-Ming Chang is the author of the 2021 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction finalist Bestiary, an inventive novel that pays homage to earlier Asian American brilliance while pushing up against—and innovating past—its boundaries. With a poetic voice full of energy, Chang speaks on paying homage to history, mythology, and family to reinvent the genre. Chang is also the author of Gods of Want, Organ Meats, and Cecilia.

Kid/teen-friendly activities include:

• 10a-5p Vendor Fair – First Floor Lobby
• 10:30-11:30a – A Morning with K-Ming Chang – 4th Floor Program Room (Adults)
• 11:30a-noon – Preschool Storytime – Kids Story Corner (Ages 2-5)
• 1-2p –  Fifth Avenue Press Book Release Reception – Lower Level Program Room (Adults)
• 2-3p Vintage Book Cover Magnets – Secret Lab (Grades K-Adult)
• 2:30-4p – Writing Group Matchmaking with Brandi Larsen – 4th Floor Program Room (Adults)

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