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. Where her previous award-winning works The Latehomecomer and The Song Poet also explore and honor her Hmong family's heritage, the author now opens up her mother's journey with a first-person voice that echoes for generations. Her presentation includes the award-winning children's book The Rock in My Throat, a personal reflection of the author's selective mutism which further expands our opportunity to empathize with the refugee experience from the point of view of her own childhood. 

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.