In person: Bonnie Jo Campbell at Open Book

Schedule

Tue Dec 03 2024 at 06:00 pm to 07:30 pm

UTC-06:00

Location

Open Book | Minneapolis, MN

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Join Milkweed Books as we celebrate Bonnie Jo Campbell, featuring an interview with Lisa Durose and book signing.
About this Event

Milkweed Books presents National Book Award finalist BONNIE JO CAMPBELL. Bonnie will be reading from her latest novel, The Waters, out now in paperback. Program will include an interview with long-time fan Lisa Durose and a book signing.


ABOUT THE BOOK

On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp―an area known as “The Waters” to the

residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan―herbalist Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed

the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful,

Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three

daughters. The youngest, beautiful and inscrutable Rose Thorn, has left her own daughter,

eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook, to grow up wild. Donkey spends her days

searching for truths in the lush landscape and in her math books, waiting for her wayward

mother and longing for a father, unaware that family secrets, passionate love, and violent

men will flood through the swamp and upend her idyllic childhood. With a “ruthless and

precise eye for the details of the physical world” (New York Times Book Review), Bonnie

Jo Campbell presents an elegant antidote to the dark side of masculinity, celebrating the

resilience of nature and the brutality and sweetness of rural life.


ABOUT THE AUTHOR

BONNIE JO CAMPBELL is the author of the novels Once Upon a River, a National

Bestseller which was adapted into a full-length feature film released to international

acclaim in 2020. Her critically-acclaimed short fiction collections include

American Salvage, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the

National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Women and Other Animals, which won the AWP

Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction; and Mothers, Tell Your Daughters. She was a 2011

Guggenheim Fellow whose other honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Eudora Welty

Prize, and the Mark Twain Award. She lives outside Kalamazoo with her husband and

two donkeys. www.bonniejocampbell.net


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