by Zach Miller
Quick Summary
The 11th selection for Minnesota's statewide book club, One Book | One Minnesota, is "In the Night of Memory," by Linda LeGarde Grover. The reading period began Monday, July 31, and ends Sunday, September 24. A virtual event with the author is scheduled for September 6.
The 11th selection for Minnesota's statewide book club, One Book | One Minnesota, is "In the Night of Memory," by Linda LeGarde Grover. The book was the recipient of the Northeastern Minnesota Book Award and the Upper Peninsula Publishers & Authors Association U.P. Notable Book Award. The author is an enrolled member of the Bois Forte Band of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe and Professor Emeritus in the Department of American Indian Studies at the University of Minnesota Duluth. Grover's novel is set on the fictional Mozhay Point Reservation, and tells the story of two Ojibwe girls as they come of age and find family "in the long, sharply etched shadow of Native American history."
The reading period runs from Monday, July 31 to Sunday, September 24. A virtual event with the author is scheduled for September 6. "In the Night of Memory" is now available via Ebooks Minnesota.
ABOUT ONE BOOK | ONE MINNESOTA
One Book | One Minnesota is presented by The Friends of the Saint Paul Public Library, operating as the Minnesota Center for the Book, in partnership with State Library Services, and sponsored by SPIRE Credit Union. Program partners also include the Council of Regional Public Library System Administrators (CRPLSA), Mackin, Minitex, the Minnesota Department of Education, and University of Michigan Press. This program is made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the Arts and Cultural Heritage Fund. Links to resources and more information can be found at thefriends.org/onebook.
