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Author Talk: Kao Kalia Yang
Adults. Registration recommended. Kao Kalia Yang, the first author to win Minnesota Book Awards in three categories in the same year, will talk about her latest book Where Rivers Part: A Story of My Mother's Life. Kalia is the Star Tribune's 2024 Artist of the Year and holds an honorary doctorate of humane letters from Carleton College. Her work has been widely honored, and the writer, teacher, and speaker is a McKnight, Soros, and Guggenheim fellow.
Books will be available for purchase and signing.
This program will be streamed simultaneously on our Facebook page at https://www.facebook.com/CarverCountyLibrary/live and available on our social media after the program.
Sponsored by the Library Foundation of Carver County.
Registrations open at 11:00am Saturday, October 4, 2025