Author with Glenwood City ties publishes second book

An author with Glenwood City ties will hold a book-signing event before the all school reunion on Saturday, September 9th at the Glenwood City School Commons, for her new book “What Happened to Everyone Else?”

In her first memoir, Beverly Finn shared her personal journey out of poverty, titled “You Won’t Be Coming Back”. Now, she shares her eight siblings’ own remarkable stories in “What Happened to Everyone Else?”

That was a question that author Finn was used to hearing after the publication of her first book. She was flooded with support and questions from her readers. Many asked about the fates of her siblings.

When Finn (her maiden name was Bosinski) was sixteen, she was ripped from the only family she ever knew and placed in a foster home in Glenwood City. She is a member of the Glenwood City High School Class of 1959.

Finn never knew anything but immense poverty during her childhood. She and her siblings struggled to survive in a log cabin on the edge of Cadott, Wisconsin. As an adult, Finn worked hard to provide a better home for her own children.

While Finn’s journey is documented in her memoir “You Won’t Be Coming Back”, she is now sharing her siblings’ stories as well. After conferring with them, Finn decided that it was time to share their stories as well. In this new family memoir, the voices of her brothers and sisters shine through. They describe the struggles of their own childhoods and the successes and tribulations they have found since then.

Resilience runs deep in the family, and each sibling made his or her own difficult decisions to work toward a better life. As you listen to the stories of Gladie, Louis, Irene, Ruby, Ken, Marlene, Ed, and James, their testimonies serve as poignant reminders of the poverty many children still face in different regions of the United States.

Finn completed her undergraduate degree at UW-River Falls and completed graduate work at Northern Illinois University in DeKalb, Illinois.

Finn spent nearly fifty years as a speech-language pathologist. Now, Finn lives with her husband, Gene, in Sycamore, Illinois. The couple has four grown sons. She is a member of the Chippewa Valley Writers Guild and the In Print Professional Writers Association, which is affiliated with the Chicago Writers Association.