The University of Minnesota Crookston will host a conversation and reading with Minnesota author Sarah Stonich on Wednesday, October 23, at 4 p.m. inside the foyer of the Fournet Building downtown. Stonich, the author of six novels and an award-winning memoir, will read from her work, talk about the small-town northern Minnesota settings of her writing, and discuss the significance of regional fiction in the 21st century. There will be an audience Q&A and book signing as well as light refreshments served.
“Last fall, I inaugurated what I intend to be an annual series of writer visits,” explained Senior Vice Chancellor Rosemary Johnsen, Ph.D. “My goals for the series include showcasing the value and pleasures of Minnesota-set fiction by Minnesota authors.”
“Fishing! is what first caught my eye, and I enjoyed it immensely,” she added about Stonich.
Stonich’s Fishing! is the story of a fishing expert named RayAnne Dahl, who is learning the ins and outs of hosting a fishing show for public television. The comedic saga of fishing, family, and three generations of independent women is the first in a trilogy.
Sarah Stonich is the best-selling author of These Granite Islands, which has been translated into seven languages and shortlisted for France’s Grand Prix des Lectrices de Elle; the critically acclaimed novel The Ice Chorus; and a memoir, Shelter: Off the Grid in the Mostly Magnetic North. Her novel-in-stories, Vacationland, is the first book in her Northern Trilogy, followed by Laurentian Divide, winner of the Minnesota Book Award for Fiction. She lives in Minneapolis. (source: University of Minnesota Press)
