The Friends Blog

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Novel & Short Story finalist:   LaRose by Louise Erdrich Published by: HarperCollins Publishers Category Sponsor: Fitzgerald in Saint Paul Erdrich’s latest novel is an emotionally haunting…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Poetry finalist:   Unbearable Splendor by Sun Yung Shin Published by: Coffee House Press Category Sponsor: Wellington Management, Inc. Who is guest, and who is host? Adoption,…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Minnesota Nonfiction finalist:   Richard F. Lack: Catalogue Raisonné 1943-1998 by Gary B. Christensen, biography by Stephen A. Gjertson Published by: Afton Historical Society Press Category Sponsor: Saint Mary’s…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Middle Grade Literature finalist:   The Secret of Dreadwillow Carse by Brian Farrey Published by: Algonquin Young Readers/Algonquin Books of Chapel Hill Category Sponsor: Education Minnesota In the center…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Memoir & Creative Nonfiction finalist:   This Is Where I Am: A Memoir by Zeke Caligiuri Published by: University of Minnesota Press Category Sponsor: Faegre Baker Daniels Prison is…

Each day we highlight one of the 36 finalists leading up to the April 8 announcement of the Minnesota Book Awards, presented by Education Minnesota. Today we feature 2017 Genre Fiction finalist:   The Born and the Made by Robert Spande Self-published Category Sponsor: Macalester College Hand-sewn, illustrated, and crafted by the author, The Born…