Montana-based writer Kendra Langford Shaw, a U-M grad, discusses her new dystopian novel about a family on an arctic homestead whose neighbors dredge up a centuries-old piano, a vestige from the original homesteading expedition, when every family was required to haul a six-hundred-pound instrument as a sign of mannerly society. 6:30 p.m., 124 E. Washington. Free. (734) 585–5567.