Upcoming Events

Join us for reading and discussion centered around the book Seven Aunts by Grand Marais author Staci Lola Drouillard.

Part memoir, part cultural history, these memories of seven aunts holding home and family together tell a crucial, often overlooked story of women of the twentieth century

Seven Aunts is an inspired patchwork of memoir and reminiscence, poetry, testimony, love letters, and family lore. In this multifaceted, unconventional portrait, Staci Lola Drouillard summons ways of life largely lost to history and reveals the true heart and soul of that history: women who defied expectations and overwhelming odds to make a place in the world for the next generation.

Staci Lola Drouillard, a descendant of the Grand Portage Band of Lake Superior Anishinaabe, lives and works in her hometown of Grand Marais, Minnesota, on the North Shore of Lake Superior. Her first book, Walking the Old Road: A People’s History of Chippewa City and the Grand Marais Anishinaabe (Minnesota, 2019) won the Hamlin Garland Prize in Popular History and the Northeast Minnesota Book Award for nonfiction and was a finalist for a Minnesota Book Award.

This is a Zoom event. You must register in advance.

Meet the artists and storytellers that contributed to the beautiful and poignant graphic novel anthology Our Stories Carried Us Here.

Green Card Voices presents a bold and unconventional collection of ten stories told and illustrated by immigrants and refugees living across the United States. Stanford scientist, deaf student, indigenous activist, Black entrepreneur--all immigrants and refugees--recount journeys from their home countries in ten vibrantly illustrated stories. Faced by unfamiliar vistas, they are welcomed with possibilities and confronted by challenges and prejudice. Timely, sobering, and insightful, Our Stories Carried Us Here acts as a mirror and a light to connect us all with immigrant and refugee experiences.

Participants will include Amara Solomon Kamara, Mary Anne and Sergio Quiroz, and Ashraf El-Attar.

This is a Zoom event. Registration is required.

Come hear Tiffany Midge, author of Bury My Heart at Chuck E. Cheese's and The Woman Who Married a Bear. Authors Anika Fajardo, Ty Chapman, Ashley Richardson, Kou Thao, and Matt Sharkey-Smith will also read. This event will take place in the Target Performance Hall at Open Book in Minneapolis (1011 Washington Avenue South).

Vaccine and mask required.

Birchbark Books will be selling books. Come say hello!