Club Book Fall 2019
Club Book is a unique player on Minnesota's literary events scene, bringing bestselling and award-winning authors to libraries throughout the seven-county Twin Cities area. Club Book's nineteenth season included an 8-event line-up anchored by the likes of: mystery juggernaut J.A. Jance, #1 New York Times bestselling YA author Nicola Yoon, book club favorite Ingrid Rojas Contreras, and the great grand-nephew of Dracula author Bram Stoker. Club Book kicked off in Chanhassen on September 17 with a talk by memoirist and podcaster Nora McInerny, and concluded on November 12 in St. Paul with an event featuring internationally bestselling breakout novelist Lara Prescott.
1921
Highlight the unique role/position of public libraries in the cultural and literary life of our communities. Create cultural opportunities to serve the diverse demographics of our residents. Utilize the local talent within literary organizations throughout the state.
Season 19 particularly created cultural opportunities by hosting authors from a variety of genres and individuals who represent and write from diverse points of view. Indian American and Farsi novelist Thrity Umrigar spoke to an ethnically diverse and intergenerational crowd about her award-winning fiction, which showcases the wealth of diversity found within the world's second largest country. Nicola Yoon, one of the foremost authors of color writing YA today, spoke to a crowd that skewed significantly younger than the Club Book average. Colombian-born Ingrid Rojas Contreras' novel is based in part on the author's own experiences in factious Bogota and set against the backdrop of Pablo Escobar's shadow reign. Brandon Hobson's work is informed by his own experiences as an enrolled member of the Cherokee Nation of Oklahoma.