About this Event
Milkweed Books presents National Book Award finalist BONNIE JO CAMPBELL. Bonnie will be reading from her latest novel, The Waters, out now in paperback. Program will include an interview with long-time fan Lisa Durose and a book signing.
ABOUT THE BOOK
On an island in the Great Massasauga Swamp―an area known as “The Waters” to the
residents of nearby Whiteheart, Michigan―herbalist Hermine “Herself” Zook has healed
the local women of their ailments for generations. As stubborn as her tonics are powerful,
Herself inspires reverence and fear in the people of Whiteheart, and even in her own three
daughters. The youngest, beautiful and inscrutable Rose Thorn, has left her own daughter,
eleven-year-old Dorothy “Donkey” Zook, to grow up wild. Donkey spends her days
searching for truths in the lush landscape and in her math books, waiting for her wayward
mother and longing for a father, unaware that family secrets, passionate love, and violent
men will flood through the swamp and upend her idyllic childhood. With a “ruthless and
precise eye for the details of the physical world” (New York Times Book Review), Bonnie
Jo Campbell presents an elegant antidote to the dark side of masculinity, celebrating the
resilience of nature and the brutality and sweetness of rural life.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
BONNIE JO CAMPBELL is the author of the novels Once Upon a River, a National
Bestseller which was adapted into a full-length feature film released to international
acclaim in 2020. Her critically-acclaimed short fiction collections include
American Salvage, which was a finalist for both the National Book Award and the
National Book Critic’s Circle Award; Women and Other Animals, which won the AWP
Grace Paley Prize for Short Fiction; and Mothers, Tell Your Daughters. She was a 2011
Guggenheim Fellow whose other honors include a Pushcart Prize, the Eudora Welty
Prize, and the Mark Twain Award. She lives outside Kalamazoo with her husband and
two donkeys. www.bonniejocampbell.net
Event Venue & Nearby Stays
Open Book, 1011 Washington Avenue South, Minneapolis, United States
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